The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by:
Paul Collier (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780195311457 (0195311450)
Publish date: May 25th 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 205
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Business,
Economics,
Politics,
International,
Social Issues,
Social Movements,
Social Justice,
Poverty
As a Master's student in Global Health, I am interested in international development, and this book provided a good introduction to the more economic side of development.
High recommendation from Ethan Zuckerman
It's hard for me to critique this adequately because I'm not an economist. It does impress me that the author identifies which of his own referenced articles or studies have been peer reviewed and which haven't. This is my most marked-up book of the last few years, but mostly in a good and dialogica...