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The bank, the president and the pearl of Africa / JBA-IBT production for Channel 4 & La Sept/ARTE ; producers, Jacques Bidou and Gerard Rosenberg ; series producer, Greg Lanning ; photographer and director, Peter Chappell ; Washington [segments]: director, Phillip Wearne.
LIBRA DVD 002 386 disc 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World Bank.
- Economic development projects--Uganda.
- Economic development projects.
- Uganda--Economic conditions.
- Uganda.
- Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Other title: World bank, the great experiment
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, distributor, [2004]
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Shows the inner workings of the World Bank by examining its dealings with Uganda for an economic development project between 1995-1997. It chronicles a year of negotiations, raising important issues about debt, structural adjustment, development priorities and, above all, the power relationships between international financial institutions and elected governments.
- Contents:
- Tug of war (52 min.) tracks the debate between Uganda and the World Bank on the relative importance of investing in roads or education.
- Mountains of debt (52 min.) is about the efforts to ease Uganda's crippling foreign debt and the plans to privatize Uganda's leading state-owned Bank, a prerequisite for further World Bank funding for financial sector reform.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Todd Berger ; editors, Catherine Zins, Paul Edmonds, Francesca Melani.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of a 1997 television production.
- Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license.
- Contains:
- Tug of war.
- Mountains of debt.
- OCLC:
- 52949283
- Publisher Number:
- FFH 6799 Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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