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

Paperback • 2008 • English

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

By Paul Collier

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About the book

In this elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty, economist Paul Collier writes persuasively that although nearly five billion of the world's people are beginning to climb from desperate poverty and to benefit from globalization's reach to developing countries, there is a "bottom billion" of the world's poor whose countries, largely immune to the forces of global economy, are falling farther behind and are in danger of falling apart, separat...Show more

Development economics and emerging economies

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ISBN

9780195374636

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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