The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It by Paul Collier

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

Paul Collier

205 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics informative medium-paced

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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 ...

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