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Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development - The Crown Agents, 1914-1974 (Hardcover)
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Managing British Colonial and Post-Colonial Development - The Crown Agents, 1914-1974 (Hardcover)
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A survey of the Crown Agents during a turbulent and eventful
period. Britain's Crown Agents' Office is a unique development
agency. Until the early 1960s, its clients were colonial
governments, and, thereafter, the administrations of dependencies
and newly independent countries. As well as purchasing a large
proportion of its customers' imports, it provided them with finance
and managed their investments. It was thus one of the largest
buyers of goods in the UK, and, after, the Bank of England, the
country's biggest financial institution. This book, the sequel to
the author's Managing the British Empire: The Crown Agents, 1833
-1914 (Boydell, 2004), examines the Agents' various development
roles, including the disastrous venture into secondary banking in
1967 which collapsed in 1974, then the largest bankruptcy in
British financial history. The book contributes to a number of
current debates in development studies, adds to our understanding
of the London financial market and the competitiveness of British
industry, and shows how present day aid agencies can learn much
from the arrangements of the past.
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