The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Collier, Paul
ISBN 10: 0195373383 ISBN 13: 9780195373387
Published by Oxford University Press, 2008
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In the award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. The G8 will have to adopt preferential trade policies, new laws against corruption, new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions.
About the Author: Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. Former director of Development Research at the World Bank, he is one of the world's leading experts on African economies, and is the author of Breaking the Conflict Trap, among other books.
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Title: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good