The Economist's Tale: A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank

Griffiths, Peter

ISBN 10: 184277185X / ISBN 13: 9781842771853

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G184277185XI4N10

Riassunto:

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 ruthlessly honest, day by day account of a mission he undertook in Sierra Leone, he uses his diary to tell 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. The collapsing economy meant that the private sector would not import. Famine loomed. No ministry, no state marketing organization, no aid organization could reverse the agreement. It had to be a top-level government decision, whether Sierra Leone could afford to annoy minor World Bank officials.

This is a rare and important portrait of the aid world which insiders will recognize, but of which the general public seldom get a glimpse.

Informazioni sugli autori:

Peter Griffiths is an independent economist and consultant. This book is being published under a pseudonym since its subject matter relates to a mission which he undertook for the World Bank.
Peter Griffiths is an independent economist and consultant. This book is being published under a pseudonym since its subject matter relates to a mission which he undertook for the World Bank.

Peter Griffiths is an independent economist and consultant.

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Titolo: The Economist's Tale: A Consultant ...
Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
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