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The Emerging Market Era
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Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
The End of Polio in India
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Leveraging Research for China
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
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Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
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