Getting Better Why Global Development Is Succeeding - And How We Can Improve the World Even More

Name: Getting Better Why Global Development Is Succeeding - And How We Can Improve the World Even More
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ISBN: 9780465031030

ISBN-10: 046503103X

ISBN-13: 9780465031030

Edition: 2012

Authors: Charles Kenny

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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 the world an even better place to live.That's not to…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.75" wide x 4.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword to the Paperback Edition



Prologue



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 Quality of Life



The Global Agenda



Conclusion: Realistic Optimism


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index