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 54
... scarcity and abundance both exist , if one defines each with respect to different contexts . The more familiar scarcity of development assistance refers to aggregate amounts of resources required and supplied — a scarcity expressed in ...
... scarcity and abundance both exist , if one defines each with respect to different contexts . The more familiar scarcity of development assistance refers to aggregate amounts of resources required and supplied — a scarcity expressed in ...
Page 55
... scarcity and organizational abundance is not simply to show that organiza- tions are worlds unto themselves , whose ... scarce ; how this conception has adversely affected the performance of donor organizations ; and how it has ...
... scarcity and organizational abundance is not simply to show that organiza- tions are worlds unto themselves , whose ... scarce ; how this conception has adversely affected the performance of donor organizations ; and how it has ...
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... scarcity of funds , and his decisions will be influenced by that sense of scarcity . The activities , concerns , and discussions taking place within the donor organiza- tion , one would think , would revolve around decisions relating to ...
... scarcity of funds , and his decisions will be influenced by that sense of scarcity . The activities , concerns , and discussions taking place within the donor organiza- tion , one would think , would revolve around decisions relating to ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
Copyright | |
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