• Media type: Book
  • Title: Organizing US foreign aid : confronting challenges of the twenty-first century
  • Contains: A new urgency: international development and U.S. foreign policy -- The nature of development -- What is foreign aid? -- The mission and purposes of U.S. foreign aid -- A short history of aid -- Organizational landscape of U.S. foreign aid -- Structure and processes of the U.S. Agency for International Development -- The political context of U.S. international assistance -- Alternative approaches: other aid-giving donor countries -- Foreign aid in the twenty-first century -- Challenges and opportunities: recommendations and options for organizing U.S. foreign aid
  • Contributor: Lancaster, Carol [Author]; Van Dusen, Ann [Author]
  • Published: Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, c 2005
  • Published in: Global economy and development: monograph series on globalization
  • Extent: IX, 78 S; graph. Darst; 23 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0815751133
  • RVK notation: MK 9500 : Entwicklungshilfe der westlichen Welt
  • Keywords: USA > Wirtschaftshilfe
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-71) and index
  • Description: "Recommends fundamental reorganization of U.S. foreign aid, currently based on outsourcing and management for results, in favor of a more unified approach emphasizing development education, stringent evaluation, and a new approach to contracting"--Provided by publ.

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