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The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. Whether these succeed in having a transformative impact depends not just on their individual brilliance but on whether they can be brought to a scale where they reach millions of poor people.

Getting to Scale explores what it takes to expand the reach of development solutions beyond an individual village or pilot program so they serve poor people everywhere. Each chapter documents one or more contemporary case studies, which together provide a body of evidence on how scale can be pursued. The book suggests that the challenge of scaling up can be divided into two solutions: financing interventions at scale, and managing delivery to large numbers of beneficiaries. Neither governments, donors, charities, nor corporations are usually capable of overcoming these twin challenges alone, indicating that partnerships are key to success.

Scaling up is mission critical if extreme poverty is to be vanquished in our lifetime. Getting to Scale provides an invaluable resource for development practitioners, analysts, and students on a topic that remains largely unexplored and poorly understood. Contributors: Tessa Bold (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Wolfgang Fengler (World Bank, Nairobi), David Gartner (Arizona State University), Shunichiro Honda (JICA Research Institute), Michael Joseph (Vodafone), Hiroshi Kato (JICA), Mwangi Kimenyi (Brookings), Michael Kubzansky (Monitor Inclusive Markets), Germano Mwabu (University of Nairobi), Jane Nelson (Harvard Kennedy School), Alice Ng'ang'a (Strathmore University, Nairobi), Justin Sandefur (Center for Global Development), Pauline Vaughan (consultant), Chris West (Shell Foundation)

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Preface 1. Overview : the challenge of reaching scale / Laurence Chandy, Akio Hosono, Homi Kharas, and Johannes Linn 2. Why business models matter / Michael Kubzansky 3. From scaled-up budgets to scaled-up impact : a decade of rising foreign aid in review / Laurence Chandy 4. Scaling up impact : vertical funds and innovative governance / David Gartner and Homi Kharas 5. Incentives and accountability for scaling up / Johannes F. Linn 6. Angel investments : enterprise solutions to scale / Chris West 7. Scaling up through disruptive business models : the inside story of mobile money in Kenya / Pauline Vaughan, Wolfgang Fengler, and Michael Joseph 8. Meeting the demand of the poor : two cases of business-led scaling up at the base of the pyramid / Hiroshi Kato and Akio Hosono 9. Scaling up south-south cooperation through triangular cooperation : the Japanese experience / Akio Hosono 10. Institutional challenges to scaling up learning in Kenya / Tessa Bold [and others] 11. Scaling up in education : school-based management in Niger / Shunichiro Honda and Hiroshi Kato 12. Scaling up impact through public-private partnerships / Jane Nelson Contributors Index.