Control, Compliance, and More Control

David Sims ()
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David Sims: Economist and Urban Development Specialist

Chapter Chapter 4 in Development Delusions and Contradictions, 2023, pp 79-96 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter looks at donors and their need for control, especially their need to avoid any whiff of corruption and to design projects with zero-embarrassments. Control is exercised through financing agreements, contracts, covenants, oversight arrangements, and extreme risk-avoidance. Control is also exercised through external communications, public relations firms, and even by bending research results. Criticism is not welcome, evaluation is another means of control, and it is essential to control ‘show time.’

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17770-5_4

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