ISBN Economic Development ( What Everyone Needs to Know ) book English Hardcover 248 pages

There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments development banks think-tanks academics NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obvious reforms never happen? Why are prosperity and equity so elusive? The revised second edition of Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know brings readers right into the trenches of development policies to show what practitioners are actually doing and explains the issues dilemmas options frustrations and opportunities they face day in and day out. In straightforward language and a question-and-answer format Marcelo M. Giugale outlines the frontier of the development practice or as he puts it ...the point at which knowledge stops and ignorance begins. He takes readers from why it is so difficult to get governments to function to the basic policies that economies need to work well the powerful new tools for social assistance and the challenges of inclusion education health infrastructure technology data and foreign aid. Giugale gives no definitive universal answers. They don't really exist. Rather he highlights what works what doesn't and what's promising. Drawing from examples across the world his overall message is clear: economic development and the poverty reduction that goes with it have never been more possible for more countries.