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6 Broad Approaches to Moral and Political Philosophy: Converging PerspectivesPart III Action around the World: Progress, Collaboration, Equity; 7 Developments in Climate Action around the World; 8 Building National and International Action; 9 Equity across Peoples and Nations; 10 Conclusion: How Ideas Change over Time; Notes; Sources; Index.

It is sometimes instructive, as Holmes long ago pointed out to Watson, to begin by asking a few questions about dogs that do not bark in the night. Suez and the Congo are not the only major crises which have disturbed the United Nations. Yet they are the only ones to which it has responded by creating a true United Nations force. Why?

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Toward Pro-Poor Policies: An Overview -- Part I. Aid -- Scaling Up: The Challenge of Monterrey -- New Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness -- In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Achieve Pro-Poor Growth? -- Aid and Growth Revisited: Policy, Economic Vulnerability, and Political Instability -- New Poverty Reduction Strategies: Old Wine in New Bottles? -- Part II. Institutions -- Crisis, Political Institutions, and Policy Reform: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- State Failure in Developing Countries and Institutional Reform Strategies -- States, Reforms, and Institutional Change: The Dynamics of Failure -- Inequality before and under the Law: Paths of Long-Run Development in the Americas -- The Transition Process in Postcommunist Societies: Toward a Political Economy of Property Rights -- Part III. Globalization -- Lessons from the 1997-98 East Asian Crises -- Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalization-Induced Changes and the Role of Policies -- Income Distribution, Factor Endowments, and Trade Openness -- Globalizing Talent and Human Capital: Implications for Developing Countries -- The Economics of the Brain Drain Turned on Its Head -- Appendix: Program.