
Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know
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- Cover
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE: WHOM IS THIS BOOK FOR?
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Overview: What Is Economic Development and What Does This Book Say about It?
- 1. Governments: One Day, They Will Work for You
- Why Do Obvious Reforms Never Happen?
- How Is the Relationship between the State and the Citizen Changing?
- Has Government Decentralization Worked?
- Do We Really Care about Graft?
- Why Can't We Stop Confl ict?
- Are Natural Resources a Curse?
- What Are the Signs That a Country Is Managing Its Riches Well?
- 2. Economic Policy: The Basics You've Got to Get Right
- How Has Economic Wisdom Changed?
- Will the New, Commodity Bonanza Be Wasted?
- Will Globalization End?
- Why Does Growth Happen in Some Places and Not in Others?
- Why Is It So Diffi cult to Agree on Tax Reform?
- How Do You Prepare for the Next Global Crisis?
- 3. Social Policy: Old War, New Weapons
- How Many People Live in Extreme Poverty?
- How Can We Help the New Poor?
- Can We End Poverty?
- Is There a Way to Measure Human Opportunity?
- Why Are Statistics So Important in Ending Poverty?
- Do We Know the Real Impact of Government Interventions?
- 4. Inclusion: Those Who Are Always Left Behind
- Will We Ever Reach Gender Parity?
- Has Globalization Helped or Hurt Women?
- How Did Average Housewives Become the Greatest Generation of Argentine Women?
- Why Do the Poor Complain So Little?
- Why Is Early Childhood Development So Diffi cult?
- What Do We Know about Informal Workers?
- 5. Sectors: What Ministers Will Worry about-or Should
- Can Governments Create Industries?
- How Will Technology Shape the World of Tomorrow's Leaders?
- How Will Tomorrow's Infrastructure Be Built?
- How Green Should Economic Growth Be?
- Can Emerging Economies Have Universal Health Coverage?
- Is There New Power in Entertainment Education?
- How Do You Deal with Rising Food Prices?
- What Are "Commodity Super-cycles," and Why Do They Matter?
- What's the Future of Foreign Aid?
- 6. Africa: The Last Frontier
- Is Africa's Emergence for Real?
- Can Africa Be Defragmented?
- Who Will Be Africa's Brazil?
- Is There a Latin Solution to Africa's Problem?
- How Have the World's Newest Nations Fared?
- Can Africa Compete with China?
- Can Africa Feed Africa?
- How Does One Fix Africa's Statistics?
- Concluding Thoughts
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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