The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

by Steven Radelet

Book Overview

The untold story of the global poor today: A distinguished expert and advisor to developing nations reveals how we've reduced poverty, increased incomes, improved health, curbed violence, and spread democracy--and how to ensure the improvements continue. We live today at a time of great progress for the global poor. Never before have so many people, in so many developing countries, made so much progress. Most people believe the opposite: that with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476764786
• ISBN13: 9781476764788
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"