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 72
... decisionmaking process that does not require a well - developed local industry in order to go wrong . Projects can still ... decision- making in the first place . In a country less developed than Brazil , the neglected domestic supplies ...
... decisionmaking process that does not require a well - developed local industry in order to go wrong . Projects can still ... decision- making in the first place . In a country less developed than Brazil , the neglected domestic supplies ...
Page 83
... decision- making context of the borrower - country macroeconomic policy- maker as it is absent in the mind of the project designer or promoter . The costs to the finance minister associated with foreign exchange extravagance and the ...
... decision- making context of the borrower - country macroeconomic policy- maker as it is absent in the mind of the project designer or promoter . The costs to the finance minister associated with foreign exchange extravagance and the ...
Page 84
... decisionmaking based on two radically different conceptions of foreign exchange scarcity is remarkable . It has probably gone ... decision is taken ; it has significant effect only in the form of a sum total of many individual decisions ...
... decisionmaking based on two radically different conceptions of foreign exchange scarcity is remarkable . It has probably gone ... decision is taken ; it has significant effect only in the form of a sum total of many individual decisions ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
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