Global Development
From life in a Mumbai slum to the choices that make whole nations rich or poor, these books look at poverty, aid and growth around the world. You come away seeing global news with more context.
Global Development Library
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least
China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa
Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back
Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
From Third World to First: Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom
How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic: What We’ve Learned From COVID-19 & the Changes We Need to Make
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
The Undercover Economist
Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World