Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty Related Books

Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Million Lives in the Balance   
Climate change will inflict damage on every continent, but it will hit the world's poor disproportionately hard. Climate Change and Global Poverty: A Billion Lives in the Balance? draws on expertise from the climate change and development communities to ask how the public and private sectors can help the world's poor manage the global climate crisis.
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Global Development 2.0: Can Philanthropists, the Public, and the Poor Make Poverty History?  
An unprecedented explosion of development players heralds a new era of global action on poverty. Global Development 2.0 celebrates this transformative trend within international aid and offers lessons to ensure that this wave of generosity yields lasting and widespread improvements to the lives and prospects of the world’s poorest.
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Too Poor for Peace?: Global Poverty, Conflict, and Security in the 21st Century 
The authors of this compelling book—some of the most experienced practitioners from around the world—investigate the complex and dynamic relationship between poverty and insecurity, exploring possible agents for change.
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Transforming the Development Landscape: The Role of the Private Sector 
Private sector activity is crucial for development. It shapes the investment climate, mobilizes innovation and financing in areas such as global health, and can either cause or mitigate social and environmental harm.
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