Blogs about: Bottom Billion
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Young World Rising: Benefits & challenges of cross-sector partnerships
Response to Salkowitz’s Young World Rising: What are the benefits & challenges of cross-sector partnerships? Technology is the only way for Africa to get rich, Herman Chinery-Hesse was once… more →
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Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places - Paul Collier
wrote 2 months ago: Paul Collier asserts the 21st century being the era of civil wars. If the claim is practically solid … more →
Natsios's Second Law?
wrote 2 months ago: In my previous blog post, I asked if resilience as an analytical lens is too accurate to be useful. … more →
We need to work in tandem
wrote 3 months ago: By: Paola H. Victoria Yesterday I decided I wanted to watch / listen TED talks while doing my chores … more →
The "bottom billion" - Paul Collier
wrote 4 months ago: Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we … more →
Did European Colonialism Benefit Africans?
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wrote 6 months ago: “We find it difficult to bring the available evidence together with plausible counter-factuals … more →
UBELONG at the Net Impact Conference
wrote 7 months ago: MIT’s Kwami Williams and UBELONG co-founder Raul Roman at the Net Impact Conference. UBELONG w … more →
Paul Collier on the "bottom billion"
wrote 8 months ago: Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we … more →
Rational Impatience and marshmallows (and development)
wrote 8 months ago: Back in 1972 Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel conducted experiments in which he claimed to show … more →
POVERTY by Ronak Jain
wrote 8 months ago: In the second Economics Society gathering, Ronak discussed the issue of persisting poverty in the wo … more →
Global Geo-Politics and the Paradox of Dutch Disease
wrote 10 months ago: Nigeria sells its Crude Oil to American Companies Though it’s been the way of the world, it is a won … more →
Paul Collier - Can a continent harness its resources for development?
wrote 1 year ago: AllAfrica By Agnus Taylor November1, 2011 Analysis Paul Collier speaks with an authoritative and ori … more →
The landscape within which new MDGs will emerge, post-2015
wrote 1 year ago: I attended a round table meeting with staff from one of the UN agencies in Geneva last week, brainst … more →
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: A Title Befitting its Illusions
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wrote 1 year ago: In 2005, over 100 donors and developing countries committed to make aid more effective when they agr … more →
Poor Economics - book
wrote 2 years ago: Image by epSos.de via Flickr Amazon.com offers samples of many of the books available in Kindle edit … more →
Where do most of the World's Poor Live?
wrote 2 years ago: In a recently released report. the Center for Global Development argues that there are more poor peo … more →
Reaching the Bottom Billion...
wrote 2 years ago: In his last week at Trickle Up, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor Kevin Hong shares his thoughts on … more →
Partners in Health (PIH) webcast!
wrote 2 years ago: PIN Conference on non-communicable diseases of the poor being webcast live today & tomorrow http … more →
Aid, Politics and Development
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wrote 2 years ago: When I first read Paul Collier‘s ‘The Bottom Billion: Why Poor countries are failing and … more →
Development Economics - East Timor
wrote 2 years ago: GDP: $356,000,000.00 GDP per Capita:$400.00 … more →
