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 26
Judith Tendler. friction between HEADQUARTERS AND FIELD One more aspect of AID's decentralization tended to impede the growth of an adaptive organizational environment : the friction be- tween headquarters and field , which often stifled ...
Judith Tendler. friction between HEADQUARTERS AND FIELD One more aspect of AID's decentralization tended to impede the growth of an adaptive organizational environment : the friction be- tween headquarters and field , which often stifled ...
Page 89
... field missions increased considerably in the months preceding June 30. Washington prodded the field into hurrying up its loan papers and sent its technicians , if necessary , to help out . In the field , there was a flurry of meetings ...
... field missions increased considerably in the months preceding June 30. Washington prodded the field into hurrying up its loan papers and sent its technicians , if necessary , to help out . In the field , there was a flurry of meetings ...
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... field organizations .... It is plausible to argue , however , that agricul- tural development objectives could be advanced much more effectively by measures to raise the level of performance of the existing organizations and field staff ...
... field organizations .... It is plausible to argue , however , that agricul- tural development objectives could be advanced much more effectively by measures to raise the level of performance of the existing organizations and field staff ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
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