Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University and a former director of Development Research at the World Bank. In addition to the award-winning The Bottom Billion, he is the author of Wars, Guns, and Votes- Democracy in Dangerous Places.
A path-breaking book
*George Soros*
Paul Collier has written with great insight about the prospects of
the bottom billion. In The Plundered Planet, he addresses himself
to the complex opportunities, challenges and risks in managing the
planet's natural resources. The bottom billion have a huge stake
and an important role in the outcomes. Collier helps us see these
issues through their eyes
*Michael Spence, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics*
Read this book
*Sir Nicholas Stern, author of The Stern Review on the Economics of
Climate Change*
Original, important and always thought-provoking. I learned a
lot
*Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist and The Logic of
Life*
Collier's arguments are compassionate and convincing, and his
straightforward explanations of economic principles are leavened
with humor and impressively accessible
*Publishers Weekly*
Paul Collier must be read if one is to begin to understand the most
vital contemporary arguments.
*Bob Geldof*
Collier and his team have researched the detail ... If you want to
help the world, stem your bleeding heart and tell your broker to
switch your funds to Emerging Markets (Africa)
*Sunday Telegraph*
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