"The Bottom Billion" is a book by Paul Collier that explores the reasons why the poorest billion people in the world are failing to progress despite international aid and support. It provides an analysis of the traps these countries are stuck in and proposes solutions to help them escape poverty.
The target group for "The Bottom Billion" is likely individuals interested in global economics, poverty, and development, including students, researchers, and policy makers.
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The "bottom billion" the "bottom billion," is stuck in poverty, falling further behind as the rest of the world prospers.
The "bottom billion" countries are trapped in poverty due to a vicious cycle of conflict, resource dependence, geographical disadvantages, and poor governance.
Globalization has reinforced poverty in the "bottom billion" countries.
Combining aid, military intervention, international laws, norms, and trade policy is needed to reverse the marginalization of the world's poorest countries.
"The Bottom Billion" by Paul Collier is a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social challenges faced by the poorest billion people in the world, primarily residing in 58 countries. Collier argues that these countries are trapped in one or more of four traps: conflict, natural resources, being landlocked with bad neighbors, and bad governance. He suggests that aid alone is not enough to help these countries escape these traps. Instead, a combination of aid, military intervention, laws and charters, and trade policies is required.
Paul Collier is a British economist specializing in the economic causes and consequences of civil wars, poverty, and development in Africa. He is a professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.
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