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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... allowed by law , or than was absolutely necessary . Local costs , unlike dollar costs tied to purchases of U.S. exports , were considered to result in a net outflow of U.S. dollars . 10 ( Since 1970 , the strictures on local - cost ...
... allowed by law , or than was absolutely necessary . Local costs , unlike dollar costs tied to purchases of U.S. exports , were considered to result in a net outflow of U.S. dollars . 10 ( Since 1970 , the strictures on local - cost ...
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... allowed to focus on the relevant alternatives , and hence almost always comes out in favor of the project in hand . As a participant in Pakistani development decisions wrote : " First the technical people design the project , then the ...
... allowed to focus on the relevant alternatives , and hence almost always comes out in favor of the project in hand . As a participant in Pakistani development decisions wrote : " First the technical people design the project , then the ...
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Judith Tendler. methods , one might say , has allowed for the time - consuming luxury of rigorous evaluation in a manner somewhat reminiscent of Parkin- son's Law.19 As if to complete a vicious circle , the poor quality of bureaucratic ...
Judith Tendler. methods , one might say , has allowed for the time - consuming luxury of rigorous evaluation in a manner somewhat reminiscent of Parkin- son's Law.19 As if to complete a vicious circle , the poor quality of bureaucratic ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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