Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Klitgaard, Robert
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	07/22/1991
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Armed with his surfboard and a $10-million-dollar loan from the World Bank, Robert Klitgaard, a Harvard-trained economist, arrived in Equatorial Guinea, eager to rehabilitate its ruined economy. Tropical Gangsters is his fascinating and compelling account of his two-and-a-half-year adventure and an insightful look at why foreign aid so often fails. Selected as one of the sx best nonfiction books of 1990 by The New York Times Book Review.