Tag: The Bottom Billion
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Easterly Reviews Collier
The New York Review of Books: Foreign Aid Goes Military! This is a book review of Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by William Easterly, the author of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So…
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Prosperity: The Conflict Trap
In The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier identifies four traps that have prevented the poorest nations from emerging to higher standards of living. The first trap is the conflict trap. Conflict is common to all societies, but nations home to the bottom billion have an inordinate share of violent internal conflict. Collier estimates that seventy-three percent…
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Prosperity: What About the Remaining Poor
After more than a two-week break, I'm returning to my Cycle of Prosperity posts' final posts. Recap To refresh our memories, I began this series talking about shalom and its many facets as presented in the Old Testament. I explained that while life certainly consists of far more than material concerns, we are material beings…
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Paul Collier: 4 ways to improve the lives of the “bottom billion”
Be sure to check out the presentation at TED, "Paul Collier: 4 ways to improve the lives of the 'bottom billion.'" Collier is the author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About. A very insightful presentation.