Book Club

As part of USAID’s Fall Semester, we will host an online book club for our readers this fall. Each week, the Impact Blog will post a suggestion from our senior experts at USAID to suggest a book on important issues in international development.

We’ll provide you and your book club with the reading suggestions and discussion questions, and you tell us what you think! Our fall reading list will explore solutions to the most pressing global challenges in international development—mobile solutions, poverty, hunger, health, economic growth, and agriculture.

Reading List

These topics range from global economic history and world-changing science discoveries to strategies that help companies succeed in developing world markets:

• Why Nations Fail
  by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

• A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
  by Gregory Clark

• Millions Saved
  by Ruth Levine and the What Works Working Group

• The Alchemy of Air
  by Thomas Hager

• Tinderbox
  by Daniel Halperin & Craig Timberg

• No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
  by Peter Piot

• The Doubly Green Revolution
  by Gordon Conway

• Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
  by CK Prahalad