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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Paul Collier

Monday, January 7, 2008

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Global poverty is falling, but a minority of developing countries are stagnant and diverging from the rest of mankind, says Collier, which is a danger to global stability. He identifies four poverty traps and in this talk focuses on one of them--resource riches.

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