Bottom Billion Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It

Name: Bottom Billion Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
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ISBN: 9780195311457

ISBN-10: 0195311450

ISBN-13: 9780195311457

Edition: 2007

Authors: Paul Collier

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Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily forward, this forgotten billion is left further and further behind with potentially serious consequences not only for them but for the stability of the rest of the world.Why do the states these people live in defy all the attempts of the international aid community to help them? Why does nothing seem to make a difference? In The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier pinpoints the issues of corruption, political instability and resource management that lie…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface



What's the Issue?



Falling Behind and Falling Apart: The Bottom Billion



The Traps



The Conflict Trap



The Natural Resource Trap



Landlocked with Bad Neighbors



Bad Governance in a Small Country



An Interlude: Globalization to the Rescue?



On Missing the Boat: The Marginalization of the Bottom Billion in the World Economy



The Instruments



Aid to the Rescue?



Military Intervention



Laws and Charters



Trade Policy for Reversing Marginalization



The Struggle for the Bottom Billion



An Agenda for Action


Research on Which This Book Is Based


Index