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S'està carregant… Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa (1990 original; edició 1991)de Robert Klitgaard
Informació de l'obraTropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa de Robert Klitgaard (1990)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Fairly dull. Lots of writing reports that nobody reads, meetings with people who don't care. Very little is accomplished, or even attempted. It does give a sense, perhaps, of the life of a traveling World Bank economic consultant. Peter Griffiths's "The Economist's Tale" tells a similar story, based in Sierra Leone instead of Equatorial Guinea, much more successfully. Judging just from memoirs, though, Peace Corps and MSF volunteers have more interesting and effective experiences. ( ) This is an interesting inside look at the process of foreign aid to Africa. The author was a consultant on economic development to the govt. of Equatorial Guinea and was involved in that country's negotiations with the World Bank and the IMF. He is a sympathetic narrator and a careful observer of the natural environment, which he clearly enjoys. It gets a little difficult for those with no background in the subject (like me) but was a good introduction. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)338.96718Social sciences Economics Production Economic Development And Growth Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and PríncipeLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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