In September 1957 Bank staff member Orville J. McDiarmid began a leave of absence to serve as Economic Adviser to the Development Board of Iraq. His description of Iraq in the excerpted piece that follows—which appeared originally in the January-February 1959 issue of “International Bank Notes”—gives an indication of the challenges faced by development efforts in that country almost half a century ago—some of which remain today. When the Beirut plane...
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2016/01/01
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Development in Iraq
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drainage