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The Economist's Tale - A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank (Paperback, New)
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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 in 1986, 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.
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