The Development Business: A History of the Commonwealth Development Corporation

by M McWilliam, Michael McWilliam Sir, M. McWilliam

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349420697
• ISBN13: 9781349420698
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"