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Robert klitgaard is a university professor a claremont graduate university where he served as president from 20052009. A study of development in equatorial guinea robert klitgaard, a. Robert klitgaard robert klitgaard is a university professor at claremont graduate university. Download epub pdf written by robert klitgaard, title. His consulting work and research have taken him to more than 35 countries in africa, asia, europe, and latin america. His book, tropical gangsters is a biographical tale detailing his time spent as an economic advisor in equatorial guinea, as well as some surfing on the island of bioko. Robert klitgaard, until last year the president of the claremont graduate university, has devoted much of his academic career to the study of governmental corruption. Professor robert klitgaard asks who is corrupt ibac.
Professor klitgaard has advised many governments on. When robert klitgaard, an adventurous young economist and former harvard professor, arrived in the steamy backwater of equatorial guinea as head of a world bank program to rehabilitate its ruined economy, he soon discovered that beneath the placid surface of this tiny nation there seethed a host of tropical gangsters. The book is about his 19861988 experiences in equatorial guinea when he was an economistadministrator of a for the countrys size enormous economic. Jan 07, 2011 robert klitgaard robert klitgaard is a university professor at claremont graduate university. One mans experience with development and decadence in deepest africa by robert klitgaard. Klitgaard tells of his twoandahalfyear struggle to rehabilitate the local. Tropical gangsters one mans experience with development and decadence in deepest africa. In this book robert klitgaard recounts his experiences as a foreign aid expert in the african country of equatorial guinea. View essay tropical gangsters from pol 363 at gettysburg college.
While klitgaard makes tropical gangsters a more playful read by describing his successful and unsuccessful explorations for the perfect wave he brought his surfboard from the us and divulging his temptations unabated by the absence of his fiancee, such personalization may result in you taking the book less seriously. One mans experience with development and decadence in deepest africa. Thurston clarke is the author of last caravan, about famine in africa, and equator. Robert klitgaard spent 2 l2 years there in charge of a multimillion dollar rehabilitations program. Klitgaard admits, i had not really thought about it. Robert klitgaards most popular book is tropical gangsters. The book is about his 19861988 experiences in equatorial guinea when he was an economistadministrator of a for the countrys size enormous economic rehabilitation project. Mar 15, 2010 robert klitgaard is a university professor at claremont graduate university, claremont, ca, where he served as president from 2005 to 2009. Tropical gangsters is the third album by kid creole and the coconuts, released on may 10, 1982.
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