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

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

Title remainder

why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it

Statement of responsibility

Paul Collier

Creator

• Collier, Paul

Subject

• Ressources naturelles
• Guerres civiles
• Poverty -- Developing countries
• Poverty
• Poverty -- Developing countries
• Korruption
• Poor
• poverty
• Underdeveloped economies
• Pobreza -- Países en desarrollo
• developing countries
• Poor -- Developing countries
• Globalisierung
• Corruption
• Developing countries
• Pobres -- Países en desarrollo
• Pauvres -- Pays en voie de développement
• Fattiga -- U-länder
• Pauvreté -- Pays en voie de développement
• Armut
• aid | economic reforms, developing countries -- poverty | world economy | globlaization | military interventions | development aid | civil wars | natural resources
• Fattigdom -- U-länder
• Entwicklungspolitik
• Politique d'aide au développement
• Pays moins développés
• Pauvreté
• Entwicklungsländer
• Crise politique

Language

eng

Summary

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 failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. This group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, 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 nation between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, and offers a bold new plan.--From publisher description

Awards note

Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2007.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

338.9009172/4

Index

index present

LC call number

HC79.P6

LC item number

C634 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography