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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion. He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behind the Beveridge Report. Published in 1942, it was revolutionary and laid the foundations for the welfare state alongside a host of other social and economic reforms, changing the world for the better. Ian Goldin tackles the challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic, ranging from globalisation to the future of jobs, income inequality and geopolitics, the climate crisis and the modern city. It is a fresh, bold call for an optimistic future and one we all have the power to create. --

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In this 'Very Short Introduction' Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development, and discusses why it is also necessary to include the role of institutions and the rule of law as well as sustainability and environmental concerns

1. What is Development? -- 2. How Does Development Happen? -- 3. Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor? -- 4. What Can Be Done to Accelerate Development? -- 5.The Evolution of Development Aid -- 6.Sustainable Development -- 7.Globalization and Development -- 8.The Future of Development

Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? This book explores the contexts, costs, and benefits of a burgeoning population on our economic, social, and environmental systems.

Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? This book explores the contexts, costs, and benefits of a burgeoning population on our economic, social, and environmental systems

With rapid globalization, the world is more deeply interconnected than ever before. While this has its advantages, it also brings with it systemic risks that are only just being identified and understood. Rapid urbanization, together with technological leaps, such as the Internet, mean that we are now physically and virtually closer than ever in humanity's history. We face a number of international challenges - climate change, finance, pandemics, cyber security, and migration - which spill over national boundaries. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the UN, the IMF, the World Bank - bod

Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood. The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies main global flows - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development. By considering what helps and what does not, the book presents policy recommendations to make globalization more effective as a vehicle for shared growth and prosperity. It will be of interest to students, researchers and anyo

Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1 To Flounder or Flourish? -- The moment we're in -- The past is prologue -- The way forward -- Good housekeeping -- PART I Making Sense of a Second Renaissance -- 2 The New World -- New maps -- New media -- 3 New Tangles -- Trade -- Finance -- People -- Technology -- Beyond 'connected' -- 4 Vitruvian Man -- From misery to middle class -- A new golden age -- Why now? -- Tarnish on a golden age -- Fresh stains -- Glimpsing greatness -- Part II Flourishing Genius -- 5 Copernican Revolutions -- Paradigm shifts -- New shifts -- The formula for flourishing genius -- 6 Cathedrals, Believers and Doubt -- Collective efforts -- Collective doubt -- Four reasons to believe -- Reasons to fear -- Part III Flourishing Risk -- 7 The Pox Is Spreading, Venice Is Sinking -- The downside of linking up -- Too complex to untangle, too concentrated to keep safe -- New poxes -- Merchants of destruction -- Taking nothing for granted -- 8 Prophets and Bonfires -- Populist bonfires -- A second bonfire of vanity -- From bonfire to revolution -- A new crisis of faith -- Losing control of the narrative -- Steering the second Renaissance -- Part IV The Contest for Our Future -- 9 David -- Magnify flourishing genius -- Mitigate flourishing risk -- Goliath -- Notes -- Index.