Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
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- Jan 31, 2011
- #EconomicGrowth #Economics
As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Ge...
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Number of Pages: 256
ISBN: 0465020151
ISBN-13: 9780465020157
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Bill Gates @BillGates
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Mar 26, 2014
I know from personal experience that stepping into the public square to announce that foreign aid is important and effective can be lonely work. Charles Kenny’s elegant book on the impact of aid carefully documents how the quality of life—even in the world’s poorest countries—has improved dramatically over the past several decades. With reams of solid data to support his case, he argues that governments and aid agencies have played an important role in this progress.