The economist's tale : a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank /: a consultant encounters hunger and the World Bank. ([2015?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Griffiths.
• Other Names: Griffiths, Peter, 1943-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 338.9109664; 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; Sierra Leone -- Economic conditions -- 1961-; Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone; Electronic books; Diaries; Sierra Leone
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783607822; 1783607823; 9781783607815; 1783607815; 9781783607839
• Related ISBNs: 1842771841; 9781842771846; 184277185X; 9781842771853
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.