Log In
Or create an account ->
Imperial Library
Home
About
News
Upload
Forum
Help
Login/SignUp
Index
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
THE END of POVERTY
One: A Global Family Portrait
MALAWI: THE PERFECT STORM
BANGLADESH: ON THE LADDER OF DEVELOPMENT
INDIA: CENTER OF AN EXPORT SERVICES REVOLUTION
CHINA: THE RISE OF AFFLUENCE
ASCENDING THE LADDER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
WHO AND WHERE ARE THE POOR?
OUR GENERATION’S CHALLENGE
Two: The Spread of Economic Prosperity
THE NOVELTY OF MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
On the Eve of Takeoff
The Great Transformation
THE SPREAD OF MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
The Cascade of Technological Change
The Great Rupture
RECONSTRUCTING A GLOBAL ECONOMY
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH
Three: Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive
THE GROWTH OF HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Saving
Trade
Technology
Resource Boom
Lack of Saving
Absence of Trade
Technological Reversal
Natural Resource Decline
Adverse Productivity Shock
Population Growth
WHY COUNTRIES FAIL TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIC GROWTH
The Poverty Trap: Poverty Itself as a Cause of Economic Stagnation
Physical Geography
Fiscal Trap
Governance Failures
Cultural Barriers
Geopolitics
Lack of Innovation
The Demographic Trap
WHERE GROWTH HAS FAILED
WHY SOME POOR COUNTRIES GREW AND OTHERS DECLINED
WHY LATIN AMERICA’S MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES FAILED TO THRIVE
CONTINUING EXTREME POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
THE GREATEST CHALLENGE: OVERCOMING THE POVERTY TRAP
Four: Clinical Economics
SOME LESSONS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS AS CLINICAL ECONOMICS
WHERE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE HAS GONE WRONG
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
The Extent of Extreme Poverty
Economic Policy
The Fiscal Framework
Physical Geography and Human Ecology
Patterns of Governance
Cultural Barriers to Economic Development
Geopolitics
EDUCATION OF AN ECONOMIST
Five: Bolivia’s High-Altitude Hyperinflation
Designing a Stabilization Plan
CRACKS IN THE EDIFICE
Consolidating the Victory over Hyperinflation
WAKING UP TO GEOGRAPHY
EARLY LESSONS IN CLINICAL ECONOMICS
Six: Poland’s Return to Europe
POLAND’S DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION
A PLAN TO ESTABLISH A MARKET ECONOMY
Launching the Plan
From Plan to Action
ENDING THE STRANGLEHOLD OF SOVIET-ERA DEBT
LESSONS FROM POLAND’S REFORMS
Seven: Reaping the Whirlwind: Russia’s Struggle for Normalcy
RUSSIA: A WORLD APART
ATTEMPTS TO SECURE FOREIGN HELP
LESSONS FROM RUSSIA
Eight: CHINA: Catching Up After Half a Millennium
HOW CHINA LOST ITS LEAD
FROM TURMOIL TO TAKEOFF
CHINA’S TAKEOFF UP CLOSE
COMPARING CHINA TO EASTERN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
CHINA’S GREATEST CHALLENGES
CHINA’S HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY
Nine: India’s Market Reforms: The Triumph of Hope Over Fear
THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF INDIA AND THE WORLD
THE BRITISH RAJ AND ITS ECONOMIC LEGACY
INDEPENDENCE AND INDIA’S ECONOMIC CHOICES
THE LAUNCH OF REFORMS
INDIA’S ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
DECADE OF DEVELOPMENT
LESSONS FROM INDIA
Ten: The Voiceless Dying: Africa and Disease
LOOK WHO’S LECTURING WHOM ON GOVERNANCE
DEEPER CAUSES OF AFRICAN POVERTY
FIRST ENCOUNTERS
The Malaria Mystery
Africa’s AIDS Cataclysm
Birth of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria
SOME LESSONS LEARNED
Eleven: The Millennium, 9/11, and the United Nations
Twelve: On-The-Ground Solutions for Ending Poverty
MEETING WITH THE RURAL POOR : SAURI, KENYA
INTERNATIONAL DONORS AND VILLAGES LIKE SAURI
MEETING WITH THE URBAN POOR: MUMBAI, INDIA
THE PROBLEM OF SCALE
Thirteen: Making the Investments Needed to End Poverty
HOW THE POVERTY TRAP WORKS AND HOW FOREIGN AID HELPS OVERCOME IT
A Numerical Illustration
Differential Diagnosis and Capital Accumulation
Why Good Investments Come in Packages
Investing in Technological Capacity
EXAMPLES OF SCALING UP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY
The Green Revolution in Asia
The Eradication of Smallpox
The Campaign for Child Survival
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
The Campaign Against Malaria
The Control of African River Blindness
The Eradication of Polio
The Spread of Family Planning
Export Processing Zones in East Asia
The Mobile Phone Revolution in Bangladesh
Fourteen: A Global Compact to End Poverty
A SHADOW PLAY
TWO SIDES OF THE COMPACT
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS
Why Today’s System Is Incoherent
A MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS-BASED POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
The Financial Plan and Millennium Development Goals Financing Gap
The Donor Plan
A Public Management Strategy
Regional Infrastructure
GLOBAL POLICIES FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
The Debt Crisis
Global Trade Policy
Science for Development
Environmental Stewardship
WHO CONDUCTS THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM?
NEXT STEPS
Fifteen: Can the Rich Afford to Help The Poor?
THE SIMPLEST CALCULATION
THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT APPROACH
THE PACKAGE OF BASIC NEEDS
Sharing the Investment Costs
HOW MUCH TOTAL OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED?
HOW THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT COMPARES WITH OTHERS
WHICH DONORS SHOULD PAY?
THE COSTS AFTER 2015
CAN THE UNITED STATES AFFORD 0.7 PERCENT OF GNP?
Sixteen: Myths and Magic Bullets
MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN
AID PROGRAMS WOULD FAIL IN AFRICA
Corruption Is the Culprit
A Democracy Deficit
Lack of Modern Values
THE NEED FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM
A Single “Mystery of Capital”?
A SHORTFALL OF MORALS?
Saving Children Only to Become Hungry Adults?
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
MAKING THE CASE FOR ACTION
Seventeen: Why We Should Do It
U.S. SECURITY AND GLOBAL POVERTY
SINCE 9/11
Acting Because We Promised
Rebalancing Foreign Policy
The Marshall Plan
Jubilee 2000 (Campaign to Drop the Debt)
The Emergency Plan for AIDS
TIME TO ASK FOR THE CONTRIBUTION OF OUR GENERATION
Eighteen: Our Generation’s Challenge
OUR GENERATION’S TURN
THE ANTIGLOBALIZATION MOVEMENT
Toward an Enlightened Globalization
TAKING UP THE CHALLENGE
The End of Slavery
The End of Colonialism
The Civil Rights and Antiapartheid Movements
OUR NEXT STEPS
Illustrations
For Further Reading
Notes
CHAPTER ONE: A GLOBAL FAMILY PORTRAIT
CHAPTER TWO: THE SPREAD OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
CHAPTER THREE: WHY SOME COUNTRIES FAIL TO THRIVE
CHAPTER FIVE: BOLIVIA’S HIGH-ALTITUDE HYPERINFLATION
CHAPTER SIX: POLAND’S RETURN TO EUROPE
CHAPTER SEVEN: REAPING THE WHIRLWIND: RUSSIA’S STRUGGLE FOR NORMALCY
CHAPTER EIGHT: CHINA: CATCHING UP AFTER HALF A MILLENNIUM
CHAPTER NINE: INDIA’S MARKET REFORMS: THE TRIUMPH OF HOPE OVER FEAR
CHAPTER TEN: THE VOICELESS DYING: AFRICA AND DISEASE
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MILLENNIUM, 9/11, AND THE UNITED NATIONS
CHAPTER TWELVE: ON-THE-GROUND SOLUTIONS FOR ENDING POVERTY
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MAKING THE INVESTMENTS NEEDED TO END POVERTY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A GLOBAL COMPACT TO END POVERTY
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: CAN THE RICH AFFORD TO HELP THE POOR?
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: MYTHS AND MAGIC BULLETS
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: WHY WE SHOULD DO IT
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: OUR GENERATION’S CHALLENGE
Works Cited
Credits
Acknowledgments
Footnotes
Fifteen: CAN THE RICH AFFORD TO HELP THE POOR?
Page 327
Sixteen: MYTHS AND MAGIC BULLETS
Page 348
Copyright Page
← Prev
Back
Next →
← Prev
Back
Next →