Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa

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 tere seethed a host of tropical gangsters:  corrupt government officials, capitalist cowboys, lazy "experts" paid through foreign aid, and fly-in, fly-out negotiators from international financial institutions.  "If we can turn this economy around," the author said optimistically on arrival, "we can do it anywhere."