Format:
Online Ressource (viii, 249 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781783607815
,
1783607815
,
9781783607822
,
1783607823
Content:
Front Cover; About this Book; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Is the Story True?; The Task Ahead; Meeting the Minister; The Expats; Meeting the Officials ; The Casablanca; Exchange Rates; The United Nations; Doing Business in Freetown; Finding the Facts; The Casablanca; The Weekend; In the Markets; Vanishing Rice; Military Coups; Planning My Expedition; Alarm at the World Bank; Into the Interior; Visiting the Projects; The Resthouse; More Projects; The University; Trekking On; Finding the Facts; The Southern Province; Colonialism; Home Again; Financing the System.
Content:
The ShowdownAnd Then What?; Glossary; Back Cover.
Content:
What Happened to the MoneyFreetown; Getting Information; How Civil Servants Survive; Trickle Down; How Much Food is There?; The World Bank Reform; Cash Flow Problems; The Agricultural Marketing Board; Of Coups and Rumours of Coups; How Much Rice is Imported?; Who Will Import?; How Do I Get Action?; The Casablanca; Cabinet Paper; Getting it to the Decision-makers; Handing it Over; On Trek Again .; Mother Theresa; Waiting for Action; The Marketing Board; A Sundowner; Revisiting the Importers; A Second Cabinet Paper; Dishonest Expatriates; Alerting the World Food Programme; Breaking the Rules.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
Additional Edition:
1842771841
Additional Edition:
9781842771846
Additional Edition:
184277185X
Additional Edition:
9781842771853
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Griffiths, Peter, 1943- Economist's tale London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2003
Language:
English
Keywords:
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