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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... usually prescribed ( 1 ) that a larger share of development assistance be channeled through multilateral institutions in order to cleanse it of the political and business inter- ferences of a bilateral program ; ( 2 ) that ...
... usually prescribed ( 1 ) that a larger share of development assistance be channeled through multilateral institutions in order to cleanse it of the political and business inter- ferences of a bilateral program ; ( 2 ) that ...
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... usually defended on these grounds , however , nor are they always proposed as a response to this particular problem . Program lending , for example , is usually presented as a more integrated and com- prehensive " planning " approach to ...
... usually defended on these grounds , however , nor are they always proposed as a response to this particular problem . Program lending , for example , is usually presented as a more integrated and com- prehensive " planning " approach to ...
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... usually more labor - using or complementary to labor use : operational costs as opposed to investment , and decentralized programs as opposed to centralized ones . Take highways , for exam- ple . Highway construction was for a long time ...
... usually more labor - using or complementary to labor use : operational costs as opposed to investment , and decentralized programs as opposed to centralized ones . Take highways , for exam- ple . Highway construction was for a long time ...
Contents
The Task and the Organizational Fit | 8 |
The Misfit | 23 |
The Institutionalization of Outside Criticism | 38 |
Copyright | |
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