{"product_id":"the-great-surge-the-ascent-of-the-developing-world","title":"The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe untold story of the global poor today: A distinguished expert and advisor to developing nations reveals how weve reduced poverty  increased incomes  improved health  curbed violence  and spread democracyand how to ensure the improvements continue.  We live today at a time of great progress for the global poor. Never before have so many people  in so many developing countries  made so much progress. Most people believe the opposite: that with a few exceptions like China and India  the majority of developing countries are hopelessly mired in deep poverty  led by inept dictators  and living with pervasive famine  widespread disease  constant violence  and little hope for change. But a major transformation is underwayand has been for two decades now. Since the early 1990s more than 700 million people have been lifted out of extreme poverty  six million fewer children die every year from disease  tens of millions more girls are in school  millions more people have access to clean water  and democracyoften fragile and imperfecthas become the norm in developing countries around the world.  The Great Surge tells the remarkable story of this unprecedented economic  social  and political transformation. It shows how the end of the Cold War  the development of new technologies  globalization  courageous local leadership  and in some cases  good fortune  have combined to dramatically improve the fate of hundreds of millions of people in poor countries around the world. Most importantly  The Great Surge reveals how we can fight the changing tides of climate change  resource demand  economic and political mismanagement  and demographic pressures to accelerate the political  economic  and social development that has been helping the poorest of the poor around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966777454645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1476764786","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781476764788.jpg?v=1770579823","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-great-surge-the-ascent-of-the-developing-world","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}