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The Bottom Billion de Paul Collier

The Bottom Billion

Autor Paul Collier
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mai 2007
Global poverty is falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. The causes of failure include civil war, dependence on the export of natural resources, and bad governance. Standard solutions do not work against these traps, Collier writes; aid is often ineffective, and globalization can actually make matters worse. What the bottom billion need, he argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. In The Bottom Billion, Collier offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195311457
ISBN-10: 0195311450
Pagini: 205
Dimensiuni: 163 x 240 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Descriere

Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines a 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 people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nation between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a set of traps that snare these countries, including civil war, a dependence on the extraction and export of natural resources, and bad governance. Standard solutions do not work against these traps, he writes; aid is often ineffective, and globalization can actually make matters worse, driving development to more stable nations. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eightindustrialized nations. If failed states are ever to be helped, the G8 will have to adopt preferential trade policies, new laws against corruption, and new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions. As former director of research for the World Bank and current Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University, Paul Collier has spent a lifetime working to end global poverty. In The Bottom Billion, he offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.

Recenzii

"An important book."--Fareed Zakaria

Notă biografică


Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. Former director of Development Research at the World Bank, he is one of the world's leading experts on African economies, and is the author of Breaking the Conflict Trap, among other books.

Cuprins

Part I: What's the Issue?A Personal Preface1. Falling Behind and Falling Apart: The Bottom BillionPart II: The Traps2. The Conflict Trap3. The Natural Resource Trap4. Landlocked with Bad Neighbors5. Bad Governance in a Small CountryPart III: An Interlude: Globalization to the Rescue6. On Missing the Boat: The Marginalization of the Bottom Billion in the World EconomyPart IV: The Instruments7. Aid to the Rescue?8. Military Intervention9. Laws and Charters10. TradePart V: The Struggle for the Bottom Billion11. An Agenda for ActionPostscriptResearch on Which This Book Is Based