A frontier challenge for development strategy is to move beyond prescribing optimal economic policies, and instead - taking a broad view of the interactions between economic, political and social constraints and dynamics - to identify entry points capable of breaking a low-growth logjam, and...

Two of the great stylized predictions of development theory, and two of the great expectations of policy makers as indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening, beyond the "tipping point" where half the world's...

Introduction: the art of engineering prosperity in unlikely places -- The tyranny of litanies -- Unpleasant truths about institutional and financial development -- The economics of chance: policy prescriptions as laundry lists -- The mechanics of failure and the secrets of success -- Ambitious...