Stern, Dethier, and Rogers see development as a dynamic process of continuous change in which entrepreneurship, innovation, flexibility, and mobility are crucial and the idea of empowerment, as both a goal and a driver of development, is central. This differs from other models for development, including the market fundamentalism popular in the 1980s and 1990s. ![]() ![]() Drawing on many years of work in development economics-in academia, in the field, and at international institutions such as the World Bank-the authors base their strategy on two interrelated approaches: building a climate that encourages investment and growth and at the same time empowering poor people to participate in that growth. In Growth and Empowerment, Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and Halsey Rogers propose a new strategy for development. ![]() Growth and Empowerment Making Development Happen Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and Halsey Rogers Despite significant gains in promoting growth and human development worldwide over the last 25 years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war.
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