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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Paul Collier
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Paperback. The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as "the best non-fiction book so far this year" by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; JKSR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 166.
In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's people are beginning to climb from desperate poverty and to benefit from globalization's reach to developing countries, there is a "bottom billion" of the world's poor whose countries, largely immune to the forces of global economy, are falling farther behind and are in danger of falling apart, separating permanently and tragically from the rest of the world. Collier identifies and explains the four traps that prevent the homelands of the ... Read more
In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's people are beginning to climb from desperate poverty and to benefit from globalization's reach to developing countries, there is a "bottom billion" of the world's poor whose countries, largely immune to the forces of global economy, are falling farther behind and are in danger of falling apart, separating permanently and tragically from the rest of the world. Collier identifies and explains the four traps that prevent the homelands of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195374636
SKU
V9780195374636
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About Paul Collier
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. Former Director of the Development Research group at the World Bank, he is one of the world's leading experts on African economies. Author of several books including Breaking the Conflict Trap, Collier has served as the senior adviser to Blair's ... Read more
Reviews for The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Fluent, thought-provoking book.
David Smith, The Observer
Rarely can a book on this subject have been such a pleasurable read.
David Smith, The Observer
Every politician should read this.
Simon Shaw, Irish Mail on Sunday.
There are hundreds of books on development but none as well written and authoritative as Paul Collier's 'The Bottom ... Read more
David Smith, The Observer
Rarely can a book on this subject have been such a pleasurable read.
David Smith, The Observer
Every politician should read this.
Simon Shaw, Irish Mail on Sunday.
There are hundreds of books on development but none as well written and authoritative as Paul Collier's 'The Bottom ... Read more