xviii, 397 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 22 cm
ISBN
1594200459 0143036580 paperback 9780143036586 paperback 9781594200458 9781101643280 electronic book 1101643285 electronic book 9781429513685 1429513683 9781429521031 1429521031 9780241958667 electronic book 0241958660 electronic book 0141018666 paperback 9780141018669 paperback
Alternate Call Number
B 75 SAC.E
Summary
A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty. [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then ... he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving ... at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, [the author] leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the ... stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are - and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest.
Note
Foreward by Bono. Originally published in the United States by the Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005; Published in Penguin Books, 2006. "This edition with a new preface published 2015"--Title page verso. Same ISBN as 2005 edition. Von der Titelblatt-Rückseite: "This edition with a new preface". - Im Innern als "2015 Edition" bezeichnet.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / Bono A global family portrait - The spread of economic prosperity - Why some countries fail to thrive - Clinical economics - Bolivia's high-altitude hyperinflation - Poland's return to Europe - Reaping the whirlwind: Russia's struggle for normalcy - China: catching up after half a millennium - India's market reforms: the triumph of hope over fear - The voiceless dying: Africa and disease - The Millennium, 9/11, and the United Nations - On-the-ground solutions for ending poverty - Making the investments needed to end poverty - A global compact to end poverty - Can the rich afford to help the poor? - Myths and magic bullets - Why we should do it - Our generation's challenge.