The Economist's Tale

副标题: A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank

ISBN: 9781842771853

出版社: Zed Books

出版年: 2003-09-17

页数: 272

定价: USD 29.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.