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The Bottom Billion

Paul Collier

2007 194 pages Oxford University Press Poor, Poverty ISBN 0195311450 Read in 2021

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 developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small