APPLYING ANALYTIC METHODS TO PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE,

Abstract

There are several hazards in allocating development assistance funds, such as unintended distortions in infrastructures and the national economy of the recipient causing inefficient employment of the nation's resources, and failure to identify the critical investment level for success of development assistance projects. This paper gives examples of these problems and how analytic techniques can, in many cases, be useful to the decisiomaker. Development assistance problems can still be characterized by difficulties in criteria formulation, data collection or derivation, and identification of resource costs. This paper describes various approaches used by others and illustrates how systems analysis and cost-benefit methods used for business and defense problems can be adapted for development assistance. It suggests methods adapted from economic analysis which can be used to test criteria for validity and identify the scarce resources which should be the basis for costing. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0634230

Entities

People

  • James T. Farmer

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Distortion
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Employment
  • Identification
  • Infrastructure
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Investments
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Analysis
  • Systems Science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Systems Analysis and Design