Paul Collier.
The Bottom Billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.
OUP. 2008
Global poverty is falling rapidly; but in fifty or so failing states
the world’s poorest people—the ‘bottom billion’—face
a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse.
Why do these states defy all attempts to help them?
Why does current aid seem unable to make a difference?
In his award-winning bestseller, Paul Cellier pinpoints the issues of corruption, political instability, and resource management that lie at the root of the problem, and offers hard-nosed solutions and real hope for a way of solving one of the great crises facing the world today.
