Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People

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Visit any developing country and you will find governments, international donors, NGOs, and corporations involved in a range of innovative activities to address the needs of the poor. Only a fraction of those that show promise at a localized level, however, will ever be replicated, expanded, and sustained to achieve a transformative impact. Learning how to expand the reach of proven interventions so that they help larger numbers of poor peoplescaling upis a fundamental challenge facing the developing world. This book improves our understanding of how scaling up can be achieved and what the international community can do to support the process.

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"Laurence Chandy is a fellow, Homi Kharas is a senior fellow, and Johannes Linn is a nonresident fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. Akio Hosono is director of the Research Institute of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)."