The UK’s new Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening, must be on a steep learning curve in deciding how to take forward the UK’s approach to tackling global poverty. Word has it that staff at DFID have put just one book in her welcome pack: Getting Better by Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development. So what impression will it give her of the state of development, and the task ahead?
Judge a book by its cover
First impressions matter – as do headlines, and book titles. And Getting Better is not shy in its message of “why global development is succeeding – and how we can improve the world even more”. To boot, the cover image shows Planet Earth nestled snugly in the middle of a sunflower. Apparently we are blooming.
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