Getting Better
Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
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. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, peace, liberty -- and even happiness. Kenny shows how the spread of cheap technologies, such as vaccines and bed nets, and ideas, such as political rights, has transformed the world. He also shows that by understanding this transformation, we can make t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-465-03288-4
- EAN: 9780465032884
- Produktnummer: 22911483
- Verlag: Basic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 352 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Sonstiges: Ab 13 - 99 J.
Über den Autor
Charles Kenny, previously a senior economist at the World Bank, is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and Foreign Policy magazines. He lives in Washington, DC.
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