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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... possible for the staff member who could not get what he wanted in his own mission to try his fortunes in another - thereby increasing his expectation of possible promotion or reas- signment as a reward for his efforts . The constant ...
... possible for the staff member who could not get what he wanted in his own mission to try his fortunes in another - thereby increasing his expectation of possible promotion or reas- signment as a reward for his efforts . The constant ...
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... possible betrayal . The writing was finished with a sense of frustration at not having articulated an argu- ment as lucidly , honestly , and convincingly as possible . Such a situa- tion must have resulted in a certain atrophy of the ...
... possible betrayal . The writing was finished with a sense of frustration at not having articulated an argu- ment as lucidly , honestly , and convincingly as possible . Such a situa- tion must have resulted in a certain atrophy of the ...
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... possible diversion to wasteful use than foreign exchange costs . Foreign exchange , moreover , is considered a scarcity less easily remedied than a shortage of domestic savings ; the latter , it is felt , can be dealt with by the ...
... possible diversion to wasteful use than foreign exchange costs . Foreign exchange , moreover , is considered a scarcity less easily remedied than a shortage of domestic savings ; the latter , it is felt , can be dealt with by the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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