It infused the Deby regime with a sense of vulnerability
while signaling the same to its enemies. In future RMP situations, the
Bank will want to show understanding of government defensive measures
proportionate to the threats faced. It may also want to buttress such
measures with specific understandings of security support from allied
countries. One can only wonder if the 2008 attack on N’Djamena would
have occurred if the rebels had known that local French legionnaires
would have been active in the defense.
As a last lesson, the World Bank mi
It infused the Deby regime with a sense of vulnerability
while signaling the same to its enemies. In future RMP situations, theAs a last lesson, the World Bank might reflect on whether its RMP
design overreached in the Chad-Cameroon case. This RMP aimed at
nothing less than escrow of the vast majority of government oil revenues
and their dedication to well-developed anti-poverty projects. Arguably
this approach tied up more money than the government was comfortable
seeing escrowed, while also counting on project execution capabilities
that did not exist. In encouraging the Bank to overreach in this fashion,
the NGO community probably contributed to the RMP’s shortcomings.
A more modest RMP, one calibrated to escrow revenues proportionate
to project execution capabilities, may c
Bank will want to show understanding of government defensive measures
proportionate to the threats faced. It may also want to buttress such
measures with specific understandings of security support from allied
countries. One can only wonder if the 2008 attack on N’Djamena would
have occurred if the rebels had known that local French legionnaires
would have been active in the defense.
As a last lesson, the World Bank mi