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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... public sector bureaucracy . This endowment , unnoted by evaluators , seemed particularly suited to a task like development assistance — a task that was far outside the range of the typical functions performed by most public sector ...
... public sector bureaucracy . This endowment , unnoted by evaluators , seemed particularly suited to a task like development assistance — a task that was far outside the range of the typical functions performed by most public sector ...
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... public sector investment program — the generation of demand for local production - is thus forfeited . A public investment program generates a type of demand for inter- mediate goods and capital that is unique ; its long term and large ...
... public sector investment program — the generation of demand for local production - is thus forfeited . A public investment program generates a type of demand for inter- mediate goods and capital that is unique ; its long term and large ...
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... public sector will meet with political and administrative difficulties . Even if such efforts are successful , the government must nevertheless pay serious political costs in terms of the public ire that will be provoked by increased ...
... public sector will meet with political and administrative difficulties . Even if such efforts are successful , the government must nevertheless pay serious political costs in terms of the public ire that will be provoked by increased ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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