The Bottom Billion

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• Paperback of the week: How to escape poverty

  Paul Collier does not want his son to grow up in a world with "a vast running sore - a billion people stuck in desperate conditions alongside unprecedented prosperity". His diagnosis and cures are a breath of fresh air in the humid debating chamber o ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• The Least Among Us

  It is perhaps a sign of how far sub-Saharan Africa still has to go that the most vigorous — and certainly the best publicized — debate about its economic future in recent years has been between two American economists based in New York. On one side o ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

4 Reviews

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  You MUST SEE at least Ted Collier's video on TED about the same topics:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_shares_4_ways_to_…

  The book covers same topics with a sharp, wider and clear analysis.
  You can disagree on some principles and directions but not on data and stat ... (continue)

  You MUST SEE at least Ted Collier's video on TED about the same topics:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_shares_4_ways_to_…

  The book covers same topics with a sharp, wider and clear analysis.
  You can disagree on some principles and directions but not on data and statistics on which his book is based.
  Taught me something important on something that I care.

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  Ilias Bartolini said on Apr 10, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Thoughtful mine of ideas

  Being a scholar Paul Collier is rather too complacent with the current economic system, never object of his critical enquiry.
  However he provides a number of non traditional courses of actions, many not explored so far, that must be carefully considered by anyone genuinely interested in development. ... (continue)

  Being a scholar Paul Collier is rather too complacent with the current economic system, never object of his critical enquiry.
  However he provides a number of non traditional courses of actions, many not explored so far, that must be carefully considered by anyone genuinely interested in development.
  An interesting book that invites to act multidimensionally in a complex world.

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  Stefano M said on Jan 16, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  A good book on solving problems in the developing world. Contrary to what you think, the solutions are not so obvious. This was the 1st year Ph.D., 2nd term book study at the University of Western Ontario. The author places too much emphasis on peer-reviewed research. He makes it sound like when som ... (continue)

  A good book on solving problems in the developing world. Contrary to what you think, the solutions are not so obvious. This was the 1st year Ph.D., 2nd term book study at the University of Western Ontario. The author places too much emphasis on peer-reviewed research. He makes it sound like when something is peer-reviewed that it is fact, when in fact usually most peer-reviewed research is contested, and much of it is eventually discarded or improved.

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  audioreader said on Aug 15, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  He's using the wrong statistics to prove his idea of a poverty trap, but his prescriptions for improving aid are still useful.

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  pktechgirl said on May 22, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 224 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0195373383
• ISBN-13: 9780195373387
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Pub date: Aug 22, 2008
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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