- Poor, Poverty, Poor, developing countries, International cooperation
"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…
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- Author
- Paul Collier
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 209
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195311457
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This record is probably conflated, but we're designating it for the most famous Paul Collier, Sir Paul Collier, CBE, FBA, the British development economist
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