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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... personnel system was meant to serve the purpose of creating an elite career corps , the reasons for a separate foreign aid personnel system were just the opposite : to be able to get already trained and experienced people fast and at ...
... personnel system was meant to serve the purpose of creating an elite career corps , the reasons for a separate foreign aid personnel system were just the opposite : to be able to get already trained and experienced people fast and at ...
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... personnel concluded that " the failure to establish a recognized career service and professional status for persons engaged in foreign assistance work " was the main cause of difficulty in recruit- ing high quality personnel.29 In 1965 ...
... personnel concluded that " the failure to establish a recognized career service and professional status for persons engaged in foreign assistance work " was the main cause of difficulty in recruit- ing high quality personnel.29 In 1965 ...
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... personnel of the govern- ment ministries from which they had broken away . Their ability to free themselves of particularly cumbersome civil service and pro- curement procedures was of major importance , especially in that this allowed ...
... personnel of the govern- ment ministries from which they had broken away . Their ability to free themselves of particularly cumbersome civil service and pro- curement procedures was of major importance , especially in that this allowed ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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