Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Poverty, National Income, and Economic Growth -- ch. 1 Poverty and How We Measure It -- Poverty and Well-Being -- Measuring Poverty -- Collecting Data -- Household Surveys and National Accounts -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- ch. 2 National Income and How We Measure It -- Macroeconomic Sectors -- Macroeconomic Concepts -- Determining Gross Domestic Product -- The Business Cycle -- The Balance of Payments -- Some Basic Accounting Relationships -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 3 Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: An Overview -- Growth Theory, Then and Now -- Institutions and Modern Growth Theory -- Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Variations in Poverty Responses to Growth -- Pro-Poor Growth -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- pt. II Government Policy, Growth, and the Poor

Ch. 4 Government and the Economy -- Focus on Fiscal Policy -- The Role of Government in the Economy -- Fiscal Policy: Taxing and Spending -- The Uses of Fiscal Policy -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- ch. 5 Monetary Policy, Inflation, and Exchange Rates -- Definitions and Concepts -- Inflation -- Inflation and Economic Growth -- Inflation and the Poor -- Exchange-Rate Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 6 Financial Development -- Financial Development and Economic Growth -- Four Decades of Financial Sector Reform in Developing Countries -- Financial Development and Poverty Reduction -- Widening Access to Financial Services -- Microfinance and the Poor -- Emigrant Remittances -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 7 Development Assistance -- Aid Sources and Trends -- Aid in the Context of Overall Capital Flows -- Does Aid Spur Economic Growth? -- Ensuring That More Aid Means More Growth

International Initiatives to Improve the Effectiveness of Aid -- Conclusion -- Annex The Five Principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 8 External Debt -- Measures of External Indebtedness -- External Indebtedness, Growth, and Poverty -- Debt Relief and Low-Income Countries -- Debt Relief versus Development Assistance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 9 Trade Policy -- The Rationale for Trade -- Trade Barriers -- Trade and Economic Growth -- Trade, Inequality, and the Poor -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- pt. III Factor Accumulation and Structural Policy -- ch. 10 Institutions and Growth -- Measures of Institutional Quality -- Institutions and Economic Growth -- Social Capital and Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 11 Education -- Education, Growth, and Poverty Reduction -- Global Education Initiatives -- Development Assistance for Education -- What Do We Know about Educational Policy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography

Ch. 12 Health -- Macroeconomics and Health -- Health and Economic Growth -- Macroeconomic Policy and Health -- Beyond GDP -- Investing in Health -- Global Health Initiatives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 13 Labor Markets -- Labor-Friendly Economic Growth -- Labor Markets in Developing Countries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 14 Land and Agriculture -- Land Distribution in Poor Countries -- Land Inequality and Rural Poverty -- Land Inequality and Economic Development -- The Role of Government in Land Markets -- The Role of Agriculture in Reducing Rural Poverty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 15 Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Productivity -- Total Factor Productivity -- Spending on Research and Development -- Technology Diffusion and Adoption -- Information and Communication Technology -- Are Entrepreneurship and Growth Linked? -- Entrepreneurial Activity arid Growth -- Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography

Ch. 16 Urbanization and Growth -- Trends in Urbanization -- Urbanization and Growth -- Urbanization and Poverty -- Key Issues in Urbanization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 17 Corruption and Poverty -- Detection and Measurement of Corruption -- Analytical Framework for the Study of Corruption -- Causes of Corruption -- Costs and Benefits of Corruption -- Impact of Corruption on Economic Performance -- Persistence of Corruption -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- ch. 18 Regulation and Economic Growth -- Product-Market Regulation -- Labor Regulation -- Regulation and the Private Sector -- Financial Regulation -- Policy Lessons from the Recent Crisis -- Regulation and Reform of the Infrastructure Sector -- Impact of Regulation on Growth and Informality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 19 Shocks, Volatility, and Growth -- Avoiding Economic Downturns -- Interdependence of North and South -- The Synchronized Movement of Developed and Developing Countries

The Complexity of North-South Links -- Monetary Policies and Capital Flows -- North-South Capital Flows -- Globalization, Volatility, and Growth -- The Financial Crisis of 2008 and Global Growth -- Growth Booms -- The Microeconomic Foundations of Growth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 20 The Politics of Growth and Poverty -- Political Power and Economic Institutions -- Economic Origins of Political Regimes -- Do Democratic Countries Grow Faster than Dictatorships? -- The Interplay of Politics and Economics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- ch. 21 Climate Change and the Wealth of Nations -- National Wealth and Genuine Saving -- Consumption Saving, and a Counterfactual to the Hartwick Rule -- How Does Natural Capital Affect Well-Being? -- High Carbon, High Growth -- Mitigation of and Adaptation to Climate Change -- Conclusion -- Annex Empirical Evidence of the Causes of Growth -- Notes -- Bibliography.

"The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' twelfth novel. The book is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Powers was inspired to write the work while teaching at Stanford University, after he encountered giant redwood trees for the first time." -- Library Thing