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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Page 59
... manufacturers would prob- ably resist , through their manufacturers ' association , the attempt to import the equipment . Although the borrowing company did not mind buying both types of equipment in Brazil , it knew that this would ...
... manufacturers would prob- ably resist , through their manufacturers ' association , the attempt to import the equipment . Although the borrowing company did not mind buying both types of equipment in Brazil , it knew that this would ...
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... manufacturers were not willing to accept an arrangement in which they lost and the generator manufacturers won . It was then suggested by the mission that the turbine order and generator order each be divided equally between Brazil and ...
... manufacturers were not willing to accept an arrangement in which they lost and the generator manufacturers won . It was then suggested by the mission that the turbine order and generator order each be divided equally between Brazil and ...
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... manufacturers grumbled throughout about how develop- ment assistance biddings — whether AID , IBRD , or IDB — were always " fixed " to make developed - country manufacturers win out . Various past projects were mentioned in evidence ...
... manufacturers grumbled throughout about how develop- ment assistance biddings — whether AID , IBRD , or IDB — were always " fixed " to make developed - country manufacturers win out . Various past projects were mentioned in evidence ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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