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The Bottom Billion
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- €12.00
- Highest observed
- €18.00
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| Price observed (Finnish time) | Price |
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| €17.70 | |
| €12.00 | |
| €17.70 | |
| €12.00 | |
| €17.90 | |
| €17.70 | |
| €17.80 | |
| €18.00 | |
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| €12.00 |
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A leading authority on global poverty reveals what we must do to help the poorest nations on Earth Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily forward, this forgotten billion is left further and further behind with potentially serious consequences not only for them but for the stability of the rest of the world. Why do the states these people live in defy all the attempts of the international aid community to help them? Why does nothing seem to make a difference? In The Bottom Billion , Paul Collier pinpoints the issues of corruption, political instability and resource management that lie at the root of the problem. He describes the battle raging in these countries between corrupt leaders and would-be reformers and the factors such as civil war, dependence on the export of natural
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- 9780195373387