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The economist's tale : a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank / Peter Griffiths.
Lippincott Library HD9017.S52 G75 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffiths, Peter, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Bank.
- Food supply--Sierra Leone.
- Food supply.
- Economic assistance--Sierra Leone.
- Economic assistance.
- World Bank--Sierra Leone.
- Economists.
- Sierra Leone--Economic conditions--1961-.
- Sierra Leone.
- Economic conditions.
- Economists--Diaries.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country? This is an insider's view of one aid-made crisis. Peter Griffiths was at the interface between government and the Bank. In this day-by-day account of a mission he undertook in Sierra Leone in 1986, he tells the story of how the World Bank, obsessed with the free market, imposed a secret agreement on the government, banning all government food imports or subsidies. This is a rare and important portrait of the aid world which insiders will recognize, but of which the general public seldom gets a glimpse.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1842771841
- 184277185X
- OCLC:
- 50292337
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