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 75
... development assistance incentives make the extravagant project the most rational choice for a developing country to make . The incentives cause the smaller project to be left out , even though it may have a better chance of being ...
... development assistance incentives make the extravagant project the most rational choice for a developing country to make . The incentives cause the smaller project to be left out , even though it may have a better chance of being ...
Page 76
... developing - country elites . Even when the local product reaches or surpasses the quality of the imported one , the consumer often continues to prefer the import . The economic his- tories of developing countries often characterize ...
... developing - country elites . Even when the local product reaches or surpasses the quality of the imported one , the consumer often continues to prefer the import . The economic his- tories of developing countries often characterize ...
Page 138
... Developing countries , 10 ; agricultural employment in , 107 ; dependency of , 109 ; domestic savings of , 75 , 79 ... Developing countries ; Financ- ing development assistance ; Organi- zational environment ; Projects , de- velopment ...
... Developing countries , 10 ; agricultural employment in , 107 ; dependency of , 109 ; domestic savings of , 75 , 79 ... Developing countries ; Financ- ing development assistance ; Organi- zational environment ; Projects , de- velopment ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
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