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 26
... problems encountered in the field . As a result , there were many mission - level problems that Washington did not hear about . Though some of these unaired problems concerned relatively minor issues , they were nevertheless important ...
... problems encountered in the field . As a result , there were many mission - level problems that Washington did not hear about . Though some of these unaired problems concerned relatively minor issues , they were nevertheless important ...
Page 93
... problem and the correspond- ing overshadowing of the organizational problem makes it very dif- ficult for a donor organization to recognize and examine openly the problems of its own structure and procedures ; for such recognition ...
... problem and the correspond- ing overshadowing of the organizational problem makes it very dif- ficult for a donor organization to recognize and examine openly the problems of its own structure and procedures ; for such recognition ...
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... problems . The major problems are thought to be quite obvious ; the need is to ameliorate , not to identify , them . The professional knows the kinds of questions his soc- iety will ask of him and the job demands it will make upon him ...
... problems . The major problems are thought to be quite obvious ; the need is to ameliorate , not to identify , them . The professional knows the kinds of questions his soc- iety will ask of him and the job demands it will make upon him ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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