Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work
- 9h 22m 19s
- Dan Honig
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2018
This audio edition reveals that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery.
In this Audiobook
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1. Introduction: The Management of Foreign Aid
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2. When to Let Go: The Costs and Benefits of Navigation by Judgment
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3. Agents: Who Does the Judging?
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4. Authorizing Environments and the Perils of Legitimacy Seeking
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5. How to Know What Works Better, When: Data, Methods, and Empirical Operationalization
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6. Journey without Maps: Environmental Unpredictability and Navigation Strategy
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7. Tailoring Management to Suit the Task: Project Verifiability and Navigation Strategy
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8. Delegation and Control Revisited
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9. Conclusion: Implications for the Aid Industry and Beyond
