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Paul Collier
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Paul Collier, whose new book is The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. Former director of development research at the World Bank and advisor to the British government’s Commission on Africa, he is one of the world’s leading experts on African economies.

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Guilt-edged Insecurity

Posted July 11, 2007 | 03:44 PM (EST)

To date, policy towards the bottom billion has been driven predominantly by guilt: America's guilt about slavery, Europe's guilt about colonialism. Unfortunately, guilt is an appallingly bad basis for action. It leads into the headless heart: the belief that we should 'atone' by charity. But its worst effects are within...

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How The G8 Got It Wrong: Or Why Aid Isn't The Answer

Posted June 21, 2007 | 12:58 PM (EST)

Since the 1960s around a billion citizens of the world have been diverging from the rest of us at an accelerating rate, a trend which will generate unmanageable social pressures. Most of these countries are in Africa, and so it is appropriate that the region should again have been on...

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