Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know Available to Purchase

Written by the Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programs for Africa at the World Bank (publisher of the annual World Development Report and hundreds of other development-related research), this work eschews theory and jargon and explains to interested readers in “kitchen-table language” (p. xi) precisely what they need to know about the current situation and future prospects in developing countries. A concise and cogent overview explains what economic development is and the conditions necessary to have it. It is not simply a growing economy, which often benefits a few already at the top of the social ladder, at...