Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Economic history -- Economic policy -- Market reforms -- Clinical Economics -- Global family portrait, spread of economic prosperity, why some countries fail to thrive, clinical economics, Bolivia's high altitude hyperinflation, Poland's return to Europe, reapping the whirlwind : Russia's struggle for normalcy, China- Catching up after half a millennium -- India's market reforms- triumph of hope over fear, Africa and disease, millennium, 9/11 and uniter nations, making the investments needed to end poverty, global compact to end povertu, can rich afford to help poor, myths and magic bullets, challenges