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Across Economic Development, Development, Public Policy, and Sociology — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as International Development Navigating Humanity’s Greatest Challenge by Michael Woolcock.

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The Great Disruption How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy — Paul Gilding

The Great Disruption How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

The Rise of the Creative Class — Richard Florida

The Rise of the Creative Class

Richard Florida

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Owning Our Future The Emerging Ownership Revolution — Marjorie Kelly

Owning Our Future The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Brazil’s Emerging Role in Global Governance Health, Food Security and Bioenergy — M. Fraundorfer

Brazil’s Emerging Role in Global Governance Health, Food Security and Bioenergy

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Confronting Inequality How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth — Jonathan David Ostry

Confronting Inequality How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth

Jonathan David Ostry

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

From Right to Reality Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean — Helena Ribe

From Right to Reality Incentives, Labor Markets, and the Challenge of Universal Social Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Abundance — Ezra Klein

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Vyama : Institutions of Hope Ordinary People’s Market Coordination & Society Organization Alternatives : a Kenyan Case Study — Mary Njeri Kinyanjui

Vyama : Institutions of Hope Ordinary People’s Market Coordination & Society Organization Alternatives : a Kenyan Case Study

Mary Njeri Kinyanjui

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Trading Away from Conflict Using Trade to Increase Resilience in Fragile States — Massimiliano Cali

Trading Away from Conflict Using Trade to Increase Resilience in Fragile States

Massimiliano Cali

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Driverless Cars, Urban Parking and Land Use — Robert A. Simons

Driverless Cars, Urban Parking and Land Use

Robert A. Simons

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Aid and Influence Patronage, Power and Politics — Stephen Browne

Aid and Influence Patronage, Power and Politics

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

The Propaganda Society Promotional Culture and Politics in Global Context — Gerald Sussman

The Propaganda Society Promotional Culture and Politics in Global Context

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Social Security, the Economy and Development — J. Midgley

Social Security, the Economy and Development

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Hotels and Highways The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey — Begüm Adalet

Hotels and Highways The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Teetering on the Rim Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State — Lesley Gill

Teetering on the Rim Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China — Axel Baeumler

Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development in China

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Integrated Landscape Approaches for Africa’s Drylands — Erin Gray

Integrated Landscape Approaches for Africa’s Drylands

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf — Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa Turning Over a New Leaf

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Toward Great Dhaka A New Urban Development Paradigm Eastward — Julia Bird

Toward Great Dhaka A New Urban Development Paradigm Eastward

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

The Unequal City Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities — John R. Short

The Unequal City Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa — John Sorenson

Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Divergent Capitalisms The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems — Richard Whitley

Divergent Capitalisms The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems

Richard Whitley

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Globalization and the Third World A Study of Negative Consequences — B. Ghosh

Globalization and the Third World A Study of Negative Consequences

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

Design After Decline How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities — Brent D. Ryan

Design After Decline How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

Themes: Economic Development • Development • Public Policy

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with International Development Navigating Humanity’s Greatest Challenge by Michael Woolcock. Connected by Economic Development, Development, Public Policy. Authors featured include Paul Gilding, Richard Florida, Marjorie Kelly, M. Fraundorfer, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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