Book review: Paul Collier, “The Bottom Billion”, Oxford University Press, 2007

• Authors: Rafał Riedel

Abstracts

EN

Paul Collier’s recent publication: ”The Bottom Billion” tries to give an answer to the question stated on the cover: why are the poorest countries failing and what can be done about it? Collier points at fifty states claiming that the real problem lies there, affecting circa one billion of their population. The sources of the decline in living standards are identified in four groups: the trap of a conflict, natural resources – usually being a part of the problem, less frequently part of the solution, the problem of being landlocked by “bad neighbors” and last but not least – bad governance.

Keywords

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Rafał Riedel; Paul Collier

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 37
• Pages: 218-220

Dates

published

2008

Contributors

author

Rafał Riedel

• University of Opole, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2008016

Biblioteka Nauki

2027928