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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."
- Florence Scovel Shinn
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| | Tropical Gangsters:
One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
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| | by Robert Klitgaard
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ZIN Product Number: 10124154
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Edition: REISSUE
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465087604
Release Date: Jan 6, 1991
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A gripping adventure story and an insightful look at why foreign aid so often fails.
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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.
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