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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: bottom billion
    sub title: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it
  name:
    name part: Collier, Paul.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: xiii, 205 p.
  abstract: Global poverty, economist Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% 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. Here, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. This group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, 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, and offers a bold new plan.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Falling behind and falling apart : the bottom billion -- The conflict trap -- The natural resource trap -- Landlocked with bad neighbors -- Bad governance in a small country -- On missing the boat : the marginalization of the bottom billion in the world economy -- Aid to the rescue? -- Military intervention -- Laws and charters -- Trade policy for reversing marginalization -- An agenda for action.
  note: Paul Collier.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-195) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: d------
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Poverty
    geographic: Developing countries
  classification: HC79.P6 C634 2007eb
  classification: 338.9009172/4
  identifier: 9780195311457 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0195311450 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 2006036630
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 061106
    record change date: 20171002054937.0
    record identifier: 0000096011