International

A "Seamless" Transition: US & UN Operations in Somalia 1992-1993 (A)

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

This case recounts the difficult, on-the-ground issues which arise in the course of militarily-delivered humanitarian assistance to the African nation of Somalia in the wake of famine sparked by virtual dissolution of the central government...

Black Wednesday in Britain: The Politics of ERM Crisis (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The withdrawal of Britain from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed as a precursor to a European political and currency union, has been described as a "seminal moment in European politics...on a rank with the first oil shock." This...

Philippine President Fidel Ramos & the Flor Contemplacion Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

Halfway into his single, six-year term as president of the Philippines, Fidel Ramos was looking forward to the country's mid-term congressional elections as an affirmation of support for his administration's economic policies. Elected in 1992,...

Black Wednesday in Britain: The Politics of ERM Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

The withdrawal of Britain from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed as a precursor to a European political and currency union, has been described as a "seminal moment in European politics...on a rank with the first oil shock." This...

Mikhukhu People of South Africa: A Question of Survival

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

This case focuses on an organization established to fight for the housing rights of people living in "informal settlements" in apartheid-era South Africa. In the wake of democratization, the group finds itself under increasing pressure from...

Managing Student Aid in Sweden (Abridged)

Publication Date: March 01, 1993

New leadership appointed in 1977 to head Sweden's National Student Aid Board faces a near-desperate situation. So inefficient is the agency in processing student applications for college living expenses that some students, strapped for cash,...

Ordering Floppy Disks in Poland

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This five-paragraph case presents the process by which a basic office supply item had to be ordered by Polish government officials in January 1992.Learning Objective:As in many brief cases, the deceptively simple procedural description can...

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

President Salinas' "Untouchables": Fighting Corruption in Mexico

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the issue of widespread and persistent corruption, and the ways in which it so often complicates economic and political development strategies. It recounts the events of the anti-corruption campaign waged during the first two...

Scaling Down the Bureaucracy

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

The problem of excessively large public bureaucracies, in relationship to the size of the overall economy, plagues many developing countries. The Pacific Basin nation of Gapura--a disguised composite of similar emerging nations in that...

Problems of Success: Evaluating JICA's Coastal Aquaculture Development Project in Thailand

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Five years after the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) established a seabass aquaculture in a poor, rural part of coastal Thailand, the project appears, on many counts, to be a success. An evaluation of the project by JICA itself...