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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... political motives behind development assis- tance , this study explores the possibility that genuine motives get crossed up by the needs of the organization to gain control over its environment . This study , in short , analyzes ...
... political motives behind development assis- tance , this study explores the possibility that genuine motives get crossed up by the needs of the organization to gain control over its environment . This study , in short , analyzes ...
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... political scene more tan- gible target than the State Department for the rising dissatisfaction with U.S. foreign policy . As noted above , AID , unlike domestic bureaucracies , had no domestic constituents on whom it could count for ...
... political scene more tan- gible target than the State Department for the rising dissatisfaction with U.S. foreign policy . As noted above , AID , unlike domestic bureaucracies , had no domestic constituents on whom it could count for ...
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... political and administrative difficulties . Even if such efforts are successful , the government must nevertheless pay serious political costs in terms of the public ire that will be provoked by increased taxes or the ill will of ...
... political and administrative difficulties . Even if such efforts are successful , the government must nevertheless pay serious political costs in terms of the public ire that will be provoked by increased taxes or the ill will of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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