Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Bottom Billion


We hear often about the billion or so people who live on a dollar a day. Many of us try to find ways to help but the truth is that while it is good for us to help, what is needed is structural change. Paul Collier in his book The Bottom Billion talks about structural change. In this talk he gives some practical ways to bring about change. The talk is about 17 minutes long and it takes a willingness to listen, but maybe for the sake of the bottom billion....

1 comment:

Robert Joustra said...

That's a great talk. I'm assigning Collier's book in my IR course this winter. I'm also doing an article for Comment in the next few hours or so using Collier's book, The Bottom Billion. Important stuff.