Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen

by Nicholas Stern and Jean-Jacques Dethier

Book Overview

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In Growth and Empowerment, Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and F. Halsey Rogers propose a new strategy for development. Drawing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262693461
• ISBN13: 9780262693462
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher