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Collier on the Bottom Billion

Author
EconTalk: Russ Roberts
Published
Mon 28 Jan 2008
Episode Link
http://www.econlib.org/library/Downloads/y2008/Collierbillion.mp3

Paul Collier of Oxford University talks about the ideas in his recent book, The Bottom Billion, an analysis of why the poorest countries in the world fail to grow. He talks about conflict, natural resources, being landlocked, and bad governance, four factors he identifies as causes of the desperate poverty and stagnation in the countries where 1/6 of the world's poorest peoples live.

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