Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know

Preface: Whom is this book for?
Acknowledgments
Overview: What Is Economic Development and What Does This Book Say about It?

Chapter 1: Governments: One Day, They Will Work for You
Why Do Obvious Reforms Never Happen?
How Is the Relationship between the State and the Citizen Changing?
Why Should Governments Intervene in Markets?
Has Government Decentralization Worked?
Do We Really Care about Graft?
Why Can't We Stop Conflict?
Are Natural Resources a Curse?
What Are the Signs That a Country Is Managing Its Riches Well?

Chapter 2: Economic Policy: The Basics You've Got to Get Right
Why Governments Struggle to Prop the World's Economy?
What Is Structural Reform?
What Are the G20 and Why Do They Matter for Development?
How Do Governments Regulate the Financial Sector?
Do the Fed's Decisions Matter for the Developing World?
What Do Europe's Woes Mean for the World's Poor?
How Do You Prepare for the Next Global Crisis?
Was the Commodity Bonanza Wasted?
Will Globalization End?
Why Does Growth Happen in Some Places and Not in Others?
Why Is It So Difficult to Agree on Tax Reform?
What Is the Global Tax War?

Chapter 3: Social Policy: Old War, New Weapons
Why Did Piketty's Work Pique Our Sudden Interest in Inequality?
How Many People Live in Extreme Poverty?
How Can We Help the New Poor?
Can We End Poverty?
Is There a Way to Measure Human Opportunity?
Why Are Statistics So Important in Ending Poverty?
Do We Know the Real Impact of Government Interventions?
Can Cheap Oil Hurt the Poor?

Chapter 4: Inclusion: Those Who Are Always Left Behind
Will We Ever Reach Gender Parity?
Has Globalization Helped or Hurt Women?
Impact Evaluation: A Woman's Best Friend?
How Did Average Housewives Become the Greatest Generation of Argentine Women?
Why Do the Poor Complain So Little?
Why Is Early Childhood Development So Difficult?
What Do We Know about Informal Workers?

Chapter 5: Sectors: What Ministers Will Worry about-or Should
Can Governments Create Industries?
Does Foreign Investment Help You Join Global Value Chains?
Can You Innovate Your Way out of the Middle-Income Trap?
From Miami to Mumbai: What Makes Cities Competitive?
How Will Technology Shape the World of Tomorrow's Leaders?
How Will Tomorrow's Infrastructure Be Built?
How Green Should Economic Growth Be?
Is It Time to End Fuel Subsidies?
Can Emerging Economies Have Universal Health Coverage?
How Do You Measure the Economic Impact of Ebola?
Is There New Power in Entertainment Education?
How Do You Deal with Rising Food Prices?
What Are "Commodity Super-cycles," and Why Do They Matter?
How Do Oil-rich Governments Respond to Falling Oil Prices?
Should Foreign Aid Be Abandoned?
What's the Future of Foreign Aid?

Chapter 6: Africa: The Last Frontier
Is Africa's Emergence for Real?
Can Africa Be Defragmented?
Can Africans Become Shareholders in their Own Wealth?
How Have the World's Newest Nations Fared?
Can Africa Compete with China?
Can Africa Follow China's Industrialization Path?
Can Services Drive Africa's Development?
Can Africa Feed Africa?
How Does One Fix Africa's Statistics?
Did Debt Forgiveness Work in Africa?
Concluding Thoughts
Notes
Bibliography
Index