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 8
... reason the agency's performance fell short of its seeming fitness for the task is the subject of the next three chapters . This chapter describes the special nature of the demands made by the development assistance task on a public ...
... reason the agency's performance fell short of its seeming fitness for the task is the subject of the next three chapters . This chapter describes the special nature of the demands made by the development assistance task on a public ...
Page 35
... reason for AID to favor the provision of PX facilities , housing compounds , furniture , and appliances : cost economies that could be achieved by the combined use of facilities abroad by military , AID , Foreign Service , and USIA ...
... reason for AID to favor the provision of PX facilities , housing compounds , furniture , and appliances : cost economies that could be achieved by the combined use of facilities abroad by military , AID , Foreign Service , and USIA ...
Page 81
... reason that the borrower considers the supply of foreign assistance exchange as abundant , in sum , is because he relates it to the size of the single demand he is making . Contrast this perceived infinite supply of foreign exchange ...
... reason that the borrower considers the supply of foreign assistance exchange as abundant , in sum , is because he relates it to the size of the single demand he is making . Contrast this perceived infinite supply of foreign exchange ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
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