Growth Is All You Need

Growth Is All You Need

Kisumu, Kenya, February 27. (Photo by Xie Jianfei/Xinhua via Getty Images.)There used to be an academic discipline centered on a straightforward question: what helps poor countries get richer? It was called development economics, and it was the intellectual engine behind sprawling government bureaucracies: USAID, Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID), the World Bank, and many others.Across the rich world, left and right under…