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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... foreign exchange costs . Foreign exchange , moreover , is considered a scarcity less easily remedied than a shortage of domestic savings ; the latter , it is felt , can be dealt with by the recipient country through improvement of tax ...
... foreign exchange costs . Foreign exchange , moreover , is considered a scarcity less easily remedied than a shortage of domestic savings ; the latter , it is felt , can be dealt with by the recipient country through improvement of tax ...
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... foreign exchange . The process un- dermines the planning and execution of economic development priorities in both the borrowing country and lending institution by introducing a constraint which seriously conflicts with certain de ...
... foreign exchange . The process un- dermines the planning and execution of economic development priorities in both the borrowing country and lending institution by introducing a constraint which seriously conflicts with certain de ...
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... foreign exchange components . The best that shadow price analysis can do is to select the best alternative from a group of projects that , on the average , are larger and have greater foreign exchange components than they would without ...
... foreign exchange components . The best that shadow price analysis can do is to select the best alternative from a group of projects that , on the average , are larger and have greater foreign exchange components than they would without ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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