Apostles of Development

Apostles of Development offers a bold new history of one of the most important enterprises of the 20th century--the project to end global poverty--through the lives and work of six of its most innovative practitioners, all former classmates at Cambridge University and all from the Global South. Deftly combining global history and biography, it shows how development began not in Washington or London or Paris but in the crowded cities and isolated villages of South Asia, home to some of the world''s poorest countries in the mid-twentieth century. Sweeping in scope, Apostles of Development details how these six individuals shaped the entire project of international development across the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.