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The Bottom Billion Why Poorest Countries Are Failing Wha by Collier Paul

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ISBN-13
9780195373387
PublicationDate
22-Aug-08
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Business/Economics
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The Bottom Billion Why Poorest Countries Are Failing Wha by Colli
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In the universally acclaimed and award-winning <em>The Bottom Bil
BookTitle
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and Wha
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9780195373387
Publication Year
2008
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
Author
Paul Collier
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Item Weight
240g
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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2008 Gold Medal winner of the Arthur Ross Book Award, given by the Council on Foreign Relations Winner, Lionel Gelber Prize for excellence in writing on international relations 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 globalization can actually make matters worse, driving development to more stable nations. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. If failed states are ever to be helped, the G8 will have to adopt preferential trade policies, new laws against corruption, new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions. Collier has spent a lifetime working to end global poverty. In The Bottom Billion, he offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.

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Oxford University Press Inc
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Book Title
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
Author
Paul Collier
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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