Ending Global Poverty: Four Women's Noble Conspiracy

ISBN-13: 9780198850175 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str.

Constantine Michalopoulos

Recenzje

Michalopoulos has written a brilliant book about four heroic female politicians who changed development policy at a critical point in history. He provides an astute analysis of development cooperation from the 1990s to the present [...] Everyone worried about the state of the world should read this book and learn from it.

O autorze

Constantine Michalopoulos has worked on and written about economic development and poverty eradication for more than half a century. In 1982-2001 he was a senior official at the World Bank where he served as Director for Economic Policy and Coordination and Senior Economic Advisor for Europe and Central Asia. Before that he was Chief Economist of the US Agency for International Development. In 1997-1999 he served as Special Advisor at the WTO. Following his retirement from the World Bank he was a development consultant to governments and international organizations such as the World Bank, the IMF, UNCTAD, the EU Commission, GTZ (the German technical assistance agency) and DfID. He also taught economics at several US universities, including American University and Johns Hopkins University. Most recently he was appointed Senior Policy Advisor at ELIAMEP a think tank in his native Athens. He is the author of Aid, Trade, and Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) amongst others.