Review: The Bottom Billion

By Gustavo Indart. 2007

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Subfields: Finance

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Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend (2011, background): “While many countries have found growth to be an “elusive quest” (Easterly, 2001) and face a variety of traps and challenges to growth (Collier, 2007), the RD is in principle a simple policy choice, and the challenge of implementing it would be minimal compared with that of raising a country’s growth”
Microlending in emerging economies: Building a new line of inquiry from the ground up (2011, background): “Hence multinationals entering the international business of microlending are tying their fortunes to a fundamentally different kind of banking customer – one whose income is small, irregular, and unpredictable (Collier, 2007; Collins, Morduch, Rutherford, & Ruthven, 2009).”
Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has it Proven so Difficult? (2016, background): “The scale of the problem is indicated by Collier (2007), who estimates that the value of known subsoil assets per square kilometer in Africa is just one-quarter of those remaining in OECD countries, which seems to be most likely a consequence of lack of exploration rather than resource-barren…”
What is Frugal, What is Innovation? Towards a Theory of Frugal Innovation (2012, neutral): “One billion people live in the least developed countries and four billion live in developing countries (Collier, 2007).”