A modest proposal: southern Africa and the World Bank.

From: The National Interest | Date: December 22, 1995| Author: Fleischer, Anthony | Copyright information

A strategy to encourage the political and economic development of southern Africa is discussed. It involves the privatization of the World Bank while ensuring the existence of certain cultural preconditions. It is shown that a World Bank of Southern Africa can be created from The Employment Bureau of Africa or TEBA, which was established to handle remittances from migrant workers to rural communities.

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