Growth and empowerment : making development happen Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or human progress ) globally over the last twenty five years much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems including high rates of child mortality illiteracy environmental degradation and war. In Growth and Empowerment Nicholas Stern Jean Jacques Dethier and F. Halsey Rogers propose a new strategy for development. Drawing on many years of work in development economics in academia in the field and at international institutions such as the World Bank the authors base their strategy on two interrelated approaches: building a climate that encourages investment and growth and at the same time empowering poor people to participate in that growth. This plan differs from other models for development including the dogmatic approach of market fundamentalism popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Stern Dethier and Rogers see economic development as a dynamic process of continuous change in which entrepreneurship innovation flexibility and mobility are crucial components and the idea of empowerment as both a goal and a driver of development is central. The book points to the unique opportunity today after 50 years of successes and failures and with a growing body of analytical work to draw on to pursue new development strategies in both research and action.