![]() Indeed, given recent events, we can only hope Collier is not working on The Top Billion. We must get over our suspicion of growth to encourage trade, with protectionism where necessary, but also commit to well-targeted aid and accept that global capitalism will not solve everything. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. Collier’s is a better book than either Sachs’s or Easterly’s for two. Around one in seven children dies before the age of 5. ![]() It shatters persistent myths and lands blows on both the left and right. Average life expectancy for the bottom billion is just 50 years. ![]() Rarely can a book on this subject have been such a pleasurable read. He seeks laws and charters and, somewhat optimistically, identifies the EU and the Commonwealth as best placed to spread the democratic gospel. His most provocative is that there are situations where military intervention is a must to enforce stability, citing Sierra Leone in 2000. The issue as Collier sees it is complicated, and requires complicated solutions. The other three "poverty traps" are abundant natural resources (think blood diamonds), bad governance and accidents of geography. Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. Civil wars are caused not by colonial legacies or fractious ethnic populations, he argues, but by the appeal of a shot at riches to uneducated, impoverished young men. Research on Which This Book Is Based 193. At the core of this fluent, thought-provoking book is an analysis of why these states continue to fall behind and fall apart. ![]()
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