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Some notes on The Bottom Billion

August 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Some notes I’ve made on Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It.
The problem
Five billion people in the world are living in developing and growing economies. One billion people in the world are living in conditions no better than in the preindustrial era, in areas [...]

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