and that is good is tonight we have jagdish bagwati who has been a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and divides his life between there and the start of university of the road on 115th street. jagdish has produced no less than at least a half-dozen books in these years. essentially he writes them faster than we read them, but he really is somebody who has an amazing way with words. the idea are big and the style, the style and a book that over the years has had a tremendous effect in the policy relevant debate which is work about localization, which was important work when the idea was so under attack and now jagdish has produced a new look with the title "why growth matters". he has coproduced it actually. like most children it has two parents, in this case with a colleague of his at the same university, colombia and the subtitle is 10 -- how economic growth in india reduced poverty and the lessons for other developing countries. let me ask the obvious first question. why do you even have to write a book called "why growth matters" who in the world would not rank that? >>

and that is good is tonight we have jagdish bagwati who has been a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and divides his life between there and the start of university of the road on 115th street. jagdish has produced no less than at least a half-dozen books in these years. essentially he writes them faster than we read them, but he really is somebody who has an amazing way with words. the idea are big and the style, the style and a book that over the years has had a tremendous effect in the policy relevant debate which is work about localization, which was important work when the idea was so under attack and now jagdish has produced a new look with the title "why growth matters". he has coproduced it actually. like most children it has two parents, in this case with a colleague of his at the same university, colombia and the subtitle is 10 -- how economic growth in india reduced poverty and the lessons for other developing countries. let me ask the obvious first question. why do you even have to write a book called "why growth matters" who in the world would not rank that? >>