The bottom billion

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

by Paul Collier

2007 205 pages eng ★ 4.0 (3 ratings)

"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 deve…