{"product_id":"navigation-by-judgment-dan-honig-9780197506394","title":"Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work","description":"Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. In \u003cem\u003eNavigation by Judgment\u003c\/em\u003e, Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Drawing on a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects across nine aid agencies and eight paired case studies of development projects, Honig shows that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery. This \"navigation by judgment\" is particularly valuable when environments are unpredictable and when accomplishing an aid program's goals is hard to accurately measure. Highlighting a crucial obstacle for effective global aid, \u003cem\u003eNavigation by Judgment\u003c\/em\u003e shows that the management of aid projects matters for aid effectiveness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dan Honig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197506399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197506394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Dan Honig","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983718908159,"sku":"9780197506394","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bcd55df1-c55b-481d-a3bb-146f76bba7ae.jpg?v=1683268309","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navigation-by-judgment-dan-honig-9780197506394","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}