MALI LIBERALISATION

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, is lending US$2.1 million to the leading book printing firm of west Africa's Mali, Graphique Industrie, to help it exploit the liberalisation of the country's education publishing. Until recently, all schoolbooks produced in Mali have been printed and edited by its Ministry of Education, but this year private companies can also supply texts. The IFC said its loan would help fund a Graphique Industrie US$5.2 million expansion and modernisation plan, diversifying its market base with ...


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