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 10
... difficult for the assistance technician or administrator than for his recipient - country counterpart is the fact that the former lacks the native person's feel for what will work and what will not . Regardless of such difficulties ...
... difficult for the assistance technician or administrator than for his recipient - country counterpart is the fact that the former lacks the native person's feel for what will work and what will not . Regardless of such difficulties ...
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... difficult to prevent a kind of safe - for - all - occasions , problem - avoiding behavior at the outpost level . Moreover , the preoc- cupation of the Washington staff with its interagency struggles cut deeply into the time it had to ...
... difficult to prevent a kind of safe - for - all - occasions , problem - avoiding behavior at the outpost level . Moreover , the preoc- cupation of the Washington staff with its interagency struggles cut deeply into the time it had to ...
Page 106
... difficult to meet the domestic investment expenditures even when the Bank was ready to finance the foreign exchange cost . Therefore it had to take an interest in the fiscal performance of borrowing governments , in the financial ...
... difficult to meet the domestic investment expenditures even when the Bank was ready to finance the foreign exchange cost . Therefore it had to take an interest in the fiscal performance of borrowing governments , in the financial ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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