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 55
... donor agencies have certain goals , proce- dures , and standards of performance as organizations which inadver- tently contribute to a tacit conception of the supply of development assistance funds as unlimited . Given the real scarcity ...
... donor agencies have certain goals , proce- dures , and standards of performance as organizations which inadver- tently contribute to a tacit conception of the supply of development assistance funds as unlimited . Given the real scarcity ...
Page 86
... organizations would make selections . All these factors make up what is generally referred to as " absorptive capacity " of the borrrower country , although it is clear that the modus operandi of the donor ... donor organization's at- tempts ...
... organizations would make selections . All these factors make up what is generally referred to as " absorptive capacity " of the borrrower country , although it is clear that the modus operandi of the donor ... donor organization's at- tempts ...
Page 104
... donor organizations - feasibility studies taken care of by the UNDP and investment by the IBRD turned out to be unworkable for the latter organization because of the importance for its production process of a smooth flow of one of its ...
... donor organizations - feasibility studies taken care of by the UNDP and investment by the IBRD turned out to be unworkable for the latter organization because of the importance for its production process of a smooth flow of one of its ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
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