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: 9780195373387

ISBN-10: 0195373383

ISBN-13: 9780195373387

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Authors: Paul Collier

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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…

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List price: $17.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.550
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


Postscript


Research on Which This Book Is Based


Index