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
... import costs of projects , and the pressure on donor organizations to lend all the resources they can command . The financing of mainly import costs is a policy problem , and hence of more obvious resolution . The organizational problem ...
... import costs of projects , and the pressure on donor organizations to lend all the resources they can command . The financing of mainly import costs is a policy problem , and hence of more obvious resolution . The organizational problem ...
Page 69
... import list should be reduced from $ 35.5 million to $ 11.7 million to eliminate imported items that could be produced by local industry . The AID mission felt , however , that " this would place too great a burden on the [ three ] ...
... import list should be reduced from $ 35.5 million to $ 11.7 million to eliminate imported items that could be produced by local industry . The AID mission felt , however , that " this would place too great a burden on the [ three ] ...
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... imported one , the consumer often continues to prefer the import . The economic his- tories of developing countries often characterize depressions , wars , and other drastic import - blocking catastrophies as blessings in dis- guise ...
... imported one , the consumer often continues to prefer the import . The economic his- tories of developing countries often characterize depressions , wars , and other drastic import - blocking catastrophies as blessings in dis- guise ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
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