The Bottom Billion
In the universally acclaimed and 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…
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In the universally acclaimed and 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 in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nations between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a set of traps that ensnare these countries, including civil war, a dependence on the extraction and export of natural resources, and bad governance. Standard solutions do not work, he writes; aid is often ineffective, and
The Bottom Billion
The Billion-Dollar Molecule
The Billion Dollar Secret
Billion Dollars On the Beach
Billion Suns
Bottom of the 9th
Billion Dollar Loser
Billion Dollar Whale
7 Billion Humans
Billion-Dollar Brain
Billion Dollar Burger
Billion Dollar Lessons
Billion Dollar Whale
Light At The Bottom Of The World
Billion Dollar Loser
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