This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Increased educational efforts often create a 'passport' for citizens to travel away from turmoil. Inside Paul Colliers book its apparent that providing support to poverty stricken countries is a slippery slope. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The 'bottom billion' are 'a cesspool of misery next to a world of growing prosperity,' (p 99). His book is concerned with why the growth process is failing in these bottom billion countries (BBCs) and what can be done about it, particularly by G8 countries. The population of the group together numbers almost one billion. The Four Traps Trap 1- The Conflict Trap 73 of people in the bottom billion countries are in a civil war or have recently been through one. He identifies 58 countries in the group, including most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as Bolivia, Cambodia, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar and Yemen, and much of landlocked Central Asia. Paul Collier’s Bottom Billion Theory can be used to criticise all previous grand-theories of development modernisation theory, dependency theory and neoliberalism. Paul Collier Last week, we solicited your questions for award-winning Oxford University economist Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and the just-published Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places. These countries are falling behind, and often falling apart’ (Collier 2007: 3), and ‘if nothing is done about it’, he writes, ‘this group will gradually diverge from the rest of the world economy over the next couple of decades, forming a ghetto of misery and discontent’ (ibid.: xi). In his book The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It?, Paul Collier argues that the core development challenge of the new millennium is the failure of the growth process in the poorest countries in the world.

The bottom billion by paul collier