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The Development Business: A History of the Commonwealth Development Corporation
Michael McWilliam
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Description for The Development Business: A History of the Commonwealth Development Corporation
Hardcover. A study of institutional transformation over fifty years that mirrors changing perceptions of economic development in Britain's aid policies. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFC; 3JJP; KCM; KFFK; KJVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
The Commonwealth development Corporation (CDC) was launched with all-party support as one of the initiatives to build a better post-war world. After a troubled start it earned its role as Britain's development agency. The chairmanship of Lord Reith in the 1950s left a legacy of robust independence within the public sector framework. Few public sector businesses escaped privatisation by the Conservative Governments of the 1980s and 1990s, yet CDC was exempted. The first privatisation announcement of the New Labour Government in 1997 was in respect of CDC and enabling legislation has since been passed to provide for a long-term public-private ... Read more
The Commonwealth development Corporation (CDC) was launched with all-party support as one of the initiatives to build a better post-war world. After a troubled start it earned its role as Britain's development agency. The chairmanship of Lord Reith in the 1950s left a legacy of robust independence within the public sector framework. Few public sector businesses escaped privatisation by the Conservative Governments of the 1980s and 1990s, yet CDC was exempted. The first privatisation announcement of the New Labour Government in 1997 was in respect of CDC and enabling legislation has since been passed to provide for a long-term public-private ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333800577
SKU
V9780333800577
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About Michael McWilliam
SIR MICHAEL MCWILLIAM KCMG was a member of the Board of Commonwealth Development Corporation from 1980-86. After a career in banking leading to the post of Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank from 1983-88, he was appointed Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies from 1989-96 and is an honorary fellow of the School. Sir Michael is chairman ... Read more
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