The bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it

The bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it /

Global poverty, economist Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. Here, Collier contends that these fifty faile...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Collier, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects:
Poor > Developing countries.
Poverty > Developing countries.
Developing Countries
Poverty
poverty.
Developing countries.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Falling behind and falling apart : the bottom billion
  • The conflict trap
  • The natural resource trap
  • Landlocked with bad neighbors
  • Bad governance in a small country
  • On missing the boat : the marginalization of the bottom billion in the world economy
  • Aid to the rescue?
  • Military intervention
  • Laws and charters
  • Trade policy for reversing marginalization
  • An agenda for action.

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