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Description
This book details the stories of five exceptional international development leaders: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Domingo Cavallo, Ela Bhatt, Dzingai Mutumbuka, and Adolfo Figueroa. While many books focus on what to do to help rising nations, this one shows the human story of who brings about change and how.
About the Author
David de Ferranti has devoted a 40-year career in international development to working with over 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He held senior management posts in the World Bank, founded and led Results for Development (R4D), directed the Washington Office of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the United Nations Foundation, a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown Universities, and a research economist at Rand, the think tank. He is a board member of four not-for-profit organizations, chairing two of them. He holds a PhD in economics from Princeton University and a BA from Yale University.