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"The Great Surge tells the remarkable story of this unprecedented economic, social, and political transformation. It shows how the end of the Cold War, the development of new technologies, globalization, courageous local leadership, and in some cases, good fortune, have combined to dramatically improve the fate of hundreds of millions of people in poor countries around the world. Most importantly, The Great Surge reveals how we can fight the changing tides of climate change, resource demand, economic and political mismanagement, and demographic pressures to accelerate the political, economic, and social development that has been helping the poorest of the poor around the world,"--Amazon.com. No library descriptions found. |
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The excellent message of the first part of the book is then unfortunately combined by a myopic libertarian one. The author who teaches at Georgetown restricts his views and quotes to the guys at Harvard, Stanford and Princeton with Jeffrey Sachs as the exotic voice of the left and a few words from Oxford too. The Great Surge is apparently a discussion among Americans. A huge potential missed by a self-inflicted limitation. ( )