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The Bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it / Paul Collier

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رقم التسجيلة 23037
نوع المادة book
ردمك 9780195374636
رقم الطلب 338.91724 C699b
المؤلف Collier, Paul
العنوان The Bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it / Paul Collier
بيانات النشر New York, [UNITED STATES]: Oxford University, 2009.
الوصف المادي xiii, 195 p
الملاحظات الببليوجرافية

Includes bibliographical references and index

المحتويات / النص

​Preface -- 
Part 1 : What's the issue
1. Falling behind and falling apart : the bottom billion -- T
Part 2: the Traps
2. The conflict trap -- 3. The natural resource trap -- 4. Landlocked with bad neighbors -- 5. Bad governance in a small country -- 
part 3 : An Interlude: globalization to the rescue
6. On missing the boat : the marginalization of the bottom billion in the world economy -- 
Part 4:  the Instruments  7. Aid to the rescue? -- 8. Military intervention -- 9. Laws and charters -- 10.Trade policy for reversing marginalization --
Part 5: The Struggle for the bottom billion
11. An agenda for action

المستخلص

​Global poverty is falling rapidly but in fifty or so failing states the world's poorest peopole the "bottom people" - face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. Why do these states defy all attempts to help them? Why dies current aid seem unable to make a difference?
In his award-winning bestseller, Paul Collier inpoints the issues of corruption, political instability, and resource management that lie at the roof of the problem, and offers hard-nosed solutions and real hope for a way of solving one of the greatest crises facing the whole world