When: 23 May, 2007
Time: 17.45
Where: Brunei Gallery, SOAS - London, UK
Professor Paul Collier, a leading authority on global poverty, will speak on his new book, The Bottom Billion. Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapdior 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.
The book shines a much needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialised West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world’s people. Collier analyses the causes of failure, and offers real hope for solving one of the great humanitarian crises facing the world today.
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