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Author Griffiths, Peter, 1943-

Title The economist's tale : a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank / Peter Griffiths
Published London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
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
The ShowdownAnd Then What?; Glossary; Back Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject World Bank -- Sierra Leone
SUBJECT World Bank fast
Weltbank gnd
Subject Food supply -- Sierra Leone
Economic assistance -- Sierra Leone
Economists -- Diaries
Development studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Economic assistance
Economic history
Economists
Food supply
Nahrungsmittelhilfe
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Wirtschaftshilfe
Ontwikkelingssamenwerking.
Voedselvoorziening.
SUBJECT Sierra Leone -- Economic conditions -- 1961- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122350
Subject Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
Genre/Form Diaries
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002031144
ISBN 9781783607815
1783607815
9781783607822
1783607823