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 11
... organizations to grope as much as they needed to . In order to maintain credibility with Congress , public watchdog entities , and investors ( in the case of the multilateral banks ) , the organization could not admit that it often had ...
... organizations to grope as much as they needed to . In order to maintain credibility with Congress , public watchdog entities , and investors ( in the case of the multilateral banks ) , the organization could not admit that it often had ...
Page 108
... organization rather than risk- ing operation through existing field organizations ; and in part from the attraction of the more visible single , large " project " compared with the less visible dispersed field " programme . " ' 14 The ...
... organization rather than risk- ing operation through existing field organizations ; and in part from the attraction of the more visible single , large " project " compared with the less visible dispersed field " programme . " ' 14 The ...
Page 109
... organization's attempts to do well . The difficulties that organizations have in living with certain types of outside uncertainty , then , can be seen as leading to the worst of both worlds : imperialistic behavior on one side of the ...
... organization's attempts to do well . The difficulties that organizations have in living with certain types of outside uncertainty , then , can be seen as leading to the worst of both worlds : imperialistic behavior on one side of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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