The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

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 dev…

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