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 14
... missions meant that positions were always being vacated and chances were always occurring to move up . Hence the high rate of inter - mission and field - Washington mobility removed one disadvan- tage of the small unit - the difficulty ...
... missions meant that positions were always being vacated and chances were always occurring to move up . Hence the high rate of inter - mission and field - Washington mobility removed one disadvan- tage of the small unit - the difficulty ...
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... Missions often talked of Washington not as their harassed ally , manning the front lines of defense against the rest of government , but as one of their harassers . Washington , in turn , often talked of a mission as if it were a stum ...
... Missions often talked of Washington not as their harassed ally , manning the front lines of defense against the rest of government , but as one of their harassers . Washington , in turn , often talked of a mission as if it were a stum ...
Page 88
... mission directors , especially newly appointed ones , know they must move certain amounts of money in order to prove their worth and can distinguish themselves further by moving even more . I once expressed doubts to a recently ...
... mission directors , especially newly appointed ones , know they must move certain amounts of money in order to prove their worth and can distinguish themselves further by moving even more . I once expressed doubts to a recently ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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