"Based on presentations made at a conference that was held on April 22-23, 2009, in Washington D.C."--

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The global finance crisis : the beginning of the end of the "development" agenda? / Nancy Birdsall -- Three models of contemporary capitalism / Mitchell A. Orenstein -- Lessons from the great recession / Justin Yifu Lin -- The crisis and the two globalization fetishes / Arvind Subramanian -- China : getting the rural issues right / Yasheng Huang -- China's response to the global economic crisis / Minxin Pei -- Latin American development after the global financial crisis / Josâe Antonio Ocampo -- The international financial crisis : eight lessons for and from Latin America / Liliana Rojas-Suarez -- Toward strengthened global economic governance / Kemal Derviðs -- The financial crisis and organizational capability for policy implementation / Lant Pritchett -- The democracy recession : before and after the financial crisis / Larry Diamond -- The labor mobility agenda for development / Michael Clemens -- Global economic crisis and demographic change : implications for development policy / Peter Heller -- What crisis? / Francis Fukuyama.