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Getting better : why global development is succeeding : and how we can improve the world even more / Charles Kenny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kenny, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- x, 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2011]
- Contents:
- Abandoning hope
- The bad news : diverging incomes
- The worse news : it's hard to raise growth rates
- The good news : the end of the Malthusian trap
- The better news : the great convergence in quality of life
- The great news : the best things in life are cheap
- Drivers of the better life : innovation and ideas
- Policies for the quality of life
- The global agenda
- Conclusion : realistic optimism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465020157
- 0465020151
- OCLC:
- 657595508
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