Introduction -- Promoting development: what works? -- Good governance and economic development -- Agricultural development for inclusive growth -- The DOHA development agenda: realizing the promise of global trade -- The truth about foreign aid -- Optimal debt relief for the poorest -- Postscript.

1. Liberalism and social transformation -- 2. The World Bank, sovereignty and development -- 3. From structural adjustment to good governance -- 4. Governance, liberalism and social transformation -- 5. Transformation in practice -- 6. Sovereignty, development and the liberal project.