The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. Whether these succeed in having a transformative impact depends not just on their individual brilliance but on whether they can be brought to a scale where they reach millions of poor people.
"Getting to Scale" explores what it takes to expand the reach of development solutions beyond an individual village or pilot program so they serve poor people everywhere. Each chapter documents one or more contemporary case studies, which together provide a body of...
The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. Whether thes...
Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved inclusive and sustainable growth in the Cerrado.
Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book exp...
This book is the first to analyze Chile s salmon farming industry in discussing industrial development in terms of the management of public goods. The book highlights important aspects of learning and capacity development, environmental sustainability, institutions, and social welfare or inclusiveness.
With aquaculture now providing almost half the global fish harvest, Chile s salmon farming and processing industry stands out as a leader in the new blue revolution . Taking a holistic, historic approach to understanding the evolutionary development of the industry, the authors employ this...
This book is the first to analyze Chile s salmon farming industry in discussing industrial development in terms of the management of public goods. The...
A fresh insight on the unequal impact of development policies in East Asia and Latin America. Written by economists and political scientists from Brazil, Chile, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and the US, chapters share a political economy perspective and are the result of collaborative work coordinated by researchers at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). In addition to chapters on particular countries and on broad subjects, there are three chapters presenting detailed comparisons of pairs of countries (Brazil and Korea, Indonesia and Mexico, Chile and Malaysia).
A fresh insight on the unequal impact of development policies in East Asia and Latin America. Written by economists and political scientists from Braz...
