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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... organizational chance for success . In observing AID from within , one is taken with the intricacies of a bilateral foreign aid organization subject to the slings and arrows of the rest of the government to which it belongs . Only after ...
... organizational chance for success . In observing AID from within , one is taken with the intricacies of a bilateral foreign aid organization subject to the slings and arrows of the rest of the government to which it belongs . Only after ...
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... organizations to grope as much as they needed to . In order to maintain credibility with Congress , public watchdog entities , and investors ( in the case of the multilateral banks ) , the organization could not admit that it often had ...
... organizations to grope as much as they needed to . In order to maintain credibility with Congress , public watchdog entities , and investors ( in the case of the multilateral banks ) , the organization could not admit that it often had ...
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... organizational dilemmas make it difficult to conceive of a development assistance organization along current or proposed lines that would be able to carry out its task without generating the elements of its own unsatisfactory perfor ...
... organizational dilemmas make it difficult to conceive of a development assistance organization along current or proposed lines that would be able to carry out its task without generating the elements of its own unsatisfactory perfor ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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