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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... caused by a chronic absence of strong execu- tive support during those times when the organization had to do battle with other government entities . It has been generally recognized that criticism of the foreign aid program weakened the ...
... caused by a chronic absence of strong execu- tive support during those times when the organization had to do battle with other government entities . It has been generally recognized that criticism of the foreign aid program weakened the ...
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... caused by foreign exchange and capital scarcity ? — when one of the major reasons that lenders are on the scene is to alleviate problems caused by this kind of scarcity ? when lending institutions have made painstaking attempts to ...
... caused by foreign exchange and capital scarcity ? — when one of the major reasons that lenders are on the scene is to alleviate problems caused by this kind of scarcity ? when lending institutions have made painstaking attempts to ...
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... caused by development lending itself . The refined cost - benefit analysis still cannot reach a significant part of the distortion caused by the availability of development assis- tance for large projects with large foreign exchange ...
... caused by development lending itself . The refined cost - benefit analysis still cannot reach a significant part of the distortion caused by the availability of development assis- tance for large projects with large foreign exchange ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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