The Bottom Billion Paul Collier Summary

In the book, “The Bottom Billion”, Paul Collier points out global poverty for 80 percent of the world, is falling away rapidly. Yet in spite of the worlds astonishing rate to do away with poverty, there is still a small percentage, especially places in Africa and the Middle East where the economy is the same and is not improving, and the population just seems to continue to grow. Collier is viewed as a specialist in the field of financial matters and the issues of common war particularly in Africa. He has worked in Africa for a significant period of time and he is familiar with a portion of the nations that he has referred to in the book. He has filled in as an exploration executive for the World Bank, and he is the chief of The Center for