Introduction: the charity trap -- Business first: the roots of prosperity in the modern world -- Business last: the roots of failure in poverty aid -- Strong medicine: the Marshall plan as a business model -- Chase the devil: details for a Marshall model -- Conclusion: make it your business

Mapping coevolution -- Directed improvisation -- Balancing variety and uniformity -- Franchising the bureaucracy -- From building to preserving markets -- Connecting first-movers and laggards -- Conclusion : how development actually happened beyond China

Contents; Foreword; List of Contributors; 1 Lessons from the Implementation of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms; 2 Nicaragua: The Impact of the Fiscal Equity Law Reform; FIGURES; TABLES; 3 Burkina Faso: A Macroeconomic Approach to Analyze Cotton Sector Reform; 4 Mozambique: School...

A third way perspective -- Employment growth: it's strengths and limitations -- Evaluating targeted policies -- Combating racial earnings disparities -- Combating gender earnings disparities -- Refocusing community college programs -- Strengthening partnerships -- Revising government tax...