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 55
... donor agencies have certain goals , proce- dures , and standards of performance as organizations which inadver- tently contribute to a tacit conception of the supply of development assistance funds as unlimited . Given the real scarcity ...
... donor agencies have certain goals , proce- dures , and standards of performance as organizations which inadver- tently contribute to a tacit conception of the supply of development assistance funds as unlimited . Given the real scarcity ...
Page 108
Judith Tendler. kind of program design that might help a donor organization further its new goals . Yet the ... organizations . This preoccu- pation may originate in part from the bias of aid agencies towards financial aid tied to capital ...
Judith Tendler. kind of program design that might help a donor organization further its new goals . Yet the ... organizations . This preoccu- pation may originate in part from the bias of aid agencies towards financial aid tied to capital ...
Page 109
... organizational scene will , on its own , lead the assistance entity to look as if it were acting that way . This organizational logic does not only lead to an explanation of " imperialistic " activity by donor organizations . It also ...
... organizational scene will , on its own , lead the assistance entity to look as if it were acting that way . This organizational logic does not only lead to an explanation of " imperialistic " activity by donor organizations . It also ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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