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 48
... goals . This uncharacteristic absence of protective concern is perhaps best explained by concluding that the one thing the agency did not have to worry about was the accusation that it was subverting its own goals . Despite all the ...
... goals . This uncharacteristic absence of protective concern is perhaps best explained by concluding that the one thing the agency did not have to worry about was the accusation that it was subverting its own goals . Despite all the ...
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... goals . " Goal displacement usually refers to the substitution of ends by means ; for example , an organization's procedures may be observed so strictly that its stated goals are defeated . In the case of AID , what does the displacing ...
... goals . " Goal displacement usually refers to the substitution of ends by means ; for example , an organization's procedures may be observed so strictly that its stated goals are defeated . In the case of AID , what does the displacing ...
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... 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 of development assistance ...
... 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 of development assistance ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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