books.google.co.uk - Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion, Collier contends...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Bottom_Billion_Why_the_Poorest_Count.html?id=xyKIteKMNXUC&q=Tony+Venables&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Bottom Billion:Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
