Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More, Paperback

As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. "Getting Better," in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, peace, liberty--and even happiness.

About the Author:

Charles Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a senior economist at the World Bank. Kenny is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy and has written for Time, Washington Monthly, South China Morning Post, and the Globalist, as well as numerous academic journals.