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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... involved know roughly what amount of foreign exchange would have to be consumed by the project in order to make it worth- while for a foreign loan . Thus if one local producer of a certain item did get a part of the local share of the ...
... involved know roughly what amount of foreign exchange would have to be consumed by the project in order to make it worth- while for a foreign loan . Thus if one local producer of a certain item did get a part of the local share of the ...
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... involved . This is exactly the type of criticism that has been leveled at development assistance programs , with the accompanying recommendation that the quality of personnel be im- proved , better techniques of analysis be developed ...
... involved . This is exactly the type of criticism that has been leveled at development assistance programs , with the accompanying recommendation that the quality of personnel be im- proved , better techniques of analysis be developed ...
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Judith Tendler. favoring by all parties involved of a capital and foreign - exchange intensive construction technique was perfectly rational , for the addi- tional foreign exchange component associated with this technique increased ...
Judith Tendler. favoring by all parties involved of a capital and foreign - exchange intensive construction technique was perfectly rational , for the addi- tional foreign exchange component associated with this technique increased ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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