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

Title: Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It Author: Paul Collier ISBN: 9780195373387 Publisher: Oxford University Press Published: 2008 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. Economics 1508233 Publisher Description: 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 book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's