"Collier, Paul"

Bottom billion why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done a - 0 - Oxford Oxford Uni Press c2007 - "xiii,205p. : ill. ;24cm."

includes index

Part 1 : What's the issue? -- falling behind and falling apart: the bottom billion -- Part 2 : The traps -- the conflict trap -- the natural resource trap -- landlocked with bad neighbors -- bad governance in a small country -- Part 3 : An interlude: globalization to the rescue? -- on missing the boat: the marginalizatoin of the bottom billion in the world economy -- Part 4 : The instruments -- aid to the rescue? -- military intervention -- laws and charters -- trade policy for reversing marginalization -- Part 5 : The struggle for the bottom billion -- an agenda for action --research on which this book is based.

9780195311457


Poor--Developing countries
Poverty--Developing countries