ABSTRACT
By the early twenty-first century, the breadth of both the consensus and its technical elaboration were unprecedented. Within Poverty Reduction
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most peripheral places. Here, everyone can, indeed must be included: Washington’s financial institutions can partner with sub-Saharan NGOs, with global accounting and audit franchises, Pakistani provincial governments, and Vietnamese commune authorities. Development’s fiscal and security-oriented conservatives, market neoliberals, communitarian social developers, and governance technocrats all have roles in deepening this consensus and rolling out its practice across global and local institutions. More importantly, now, we are told, Development can finally work. A fresh commitment to harmonize around this consensus and apply its governing techniques, and a much greater investment of funds, will yield a substantial dividend for the poor.2
