Inside Foreign AidJohns Hopkins University Press, 1975 - 140 pages Monograph on development aid, with special reference to the role of USA aid programmes and development projects - shows how organizational environment and behaviour determine many of the shortcomings of both bilateral aid (e.g. 'Aid') and multilateral aid (e.g. World Bank, IDB, UNDP (role of UN). Bibliography pp. 129 to 135 and references. |
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... institutions in order to cleanse it of the political and business inter- ferences of a bilateral program ; ( 2 ) that liberalization of donor- country trade policy be considered essential to any aid program promoting growth in the less ...
... institutions in order to cleanse it of the political and business inter- ferences of a bilateral program ; ( 2 ) that liberalization of donor- country trade policy be considered essential to any aid program promoting growth in the less ...
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... institutions must pay so much attention to project creation , the nature of these institutions turns out to be quite different from what one would expect . One would imagine the task of an aid institution to be the channeling of a flow ...
... institutions must pay so much attention to project creation , the nature of these institutions turns out to be quite different from what one would expect . One would imagine the task of an aid institution to be the channeling of a flow ...
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... institutions are not annually beholden to an appropriation process . The two organizations , moreover , have en- gaged in an informal competition with each other for project borrow- ers in Latin America by offering concessions to the ...
... institutions are not annually beholden to an appropriation process . The two organizations , moreover , have en- gaged in an informal competition with each other for project borrow- ers in Latin America by offering concessions to the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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