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have been started in Uganda and in Malawi, and CDC

has invested in both. As a result, in the high

altitude areas of Kenya some 60,000 families now

grow tea and have an annual income from their tea

plots of, on the average, just under £60 per annum, by contrast with one of barely £5 per annum before

the first tea scheme was started.

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So in my

CDC's financial success is undoubted.

view is the real value of its development achievement. This view has been amply endorsed by a variety of

people with knowledge of development.

For instance,

the late Sir Andrew Cohen, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Overseas Development, former Governor of Uganda, and for many years a leading civil servant in the Colonial Office, said in evidence in 1968 to

the Estimates Committee of the House of Commons that

the "Ministry of Overseas Development regarded the CDC as probably as efficient a form of aid as exists in this country or anywhere in the world, a view which

I know the World Bank also holds."

A Report from the

Select Committee on Overseas Aid, published in March 1971, fully agreed with the views expressed by the Estimates Committee that "CDC is making a valuable

Finally, contribution to developing countries".

as a last blow of this trumpet, the President of the World Bank, Mr Robert S. McNamara, assessed CDC as "a unique organisation which has shown the way to the rest of us". This was written in the light of a number of agricultural partnerships between the World

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