Betrayed: Politics, Power, and Prosperity (Fixing Fragile States: a New Paradigm for Development)

Betrayed combines the latest research on poverty and state building with the author's personal observations drawn from years of living and traveling in developing countries and working in places such as China and Nigeria. The thesis explains in practical terms how political, economic, and social leaders in the least developed countries can achieve inclusive development. The book covers a far wider range of vital issues than comparable titles. These include social exclusion processes, ideology, elite incentives, strategic urbanization, connectivity, livelihood factors, power dynamics, transaction costs, social networks, and business linkages.