The Bottom Billion
by Paul Collier
Why the poorest countries stay poor: conflict, natural resources, landlocked with bad neighbors, bad governance, and what might help. Compact and influential.
Read it if…
you want development economics focused on the hardest cases.
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you want Sachs's optimism or Easterly's skepticism.
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Three things you will actually use
- Four traps explain stagnation.
- Aid alone is not enough.
- Targeted interventions.
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Collier's traps.
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