![]() ![]() Preferential trade policies, new laws against corruption, new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions. If failed states are ever to be helped, the G8 will have to adopt ![]() What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. Standard solutions do not work, he writes aid is often ineffective, and globalization can actually make matters worse, driving development to more stable nations. Traps that ensnare these countries, including civil war, a dependence on the extraction and export of natural resources, and bad governance. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a set of A struggle rages within each of these nations between reformers and corrupt leaders-and the corrupt are winning. The book shines 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 anĪbsolute decline in living standards. ![]() In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states-home to the poorest one billion people on Earth-pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. ![]()
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