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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... problems outlined above belong solely to the U.S. bilateral program and its executor , the Agency for International De- velopment ( AID ) . The attempt to explain AID's problems often centers on the subjection of that agency to the ...
... problems outlined above belong solely to the U.S. bilateral program and its executor , the Agency for International De- velopment ( AID ) . The attempt to explain AID's problems often centers on the subjection of that agency to the ...
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... problems of U.S. foreign aid are prevalent in the multilateral organizations as well . This is surprising not only ... problems . The intent of this inquiry , then , is twofold : to explore the unique character of the Agency for ...
... problems of U.S. foreign aid are prevalent in the multilateral organizations as well . This is surprising not only ... problems . The intent of this inquiry , then , is twofold : to explore the unique character of the Agency for ...
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... problems encountered in the field . As a result , there were many mission - level problems that Washington did not hear about . Though some of these unaired problems concerned relatively minor issues , they were nevertheless important ...
... problems encountered in the field . As a result , there were many mission - level problems that Washington did not hear about . Though some of these unaired problems concerned relatively minor issues , they were nevertheless important ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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