The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global…

Author: Paul Collier

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 fu….Read More

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