Description |
1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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 |
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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 |
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The ShowdownAnd Then What?; Glossary; Back Cover |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
World Bank -- Sierra Leone.
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World Bank. |
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Sierra Leone. |
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Weltbank. |
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Food supply -- Sierra Leone.
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Food supply. |
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Economic assistance -- Sierra Leone.
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Economic assistance. |
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Sierra Leone -- Economic conditions -- 1961-
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Economic conditions. |
Chronological Term |
1961- |
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Economists -- Diaries.
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Economists. |
Genre/Form |
Diaries.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1961-2002. |
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Since 1961 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Diaries.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Griffiths, Peter, 1943- Economist's tale. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2003 (DLC) 2002031144 (OCoLC)50292337 |
ISBN |
9781783607815 electronic book |
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1783607815 electronic book |
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9781783607822 electronic book |
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1783607823 electronic book |
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1842771841 |
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9781842771846 |
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184277185X paperback |
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9781842771853 paperback |
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