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How Migration is Changing Our World
It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be ...
A New Economics for Neglected Places
The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperity Left behind places can be found in prosperous countriesโfr...
Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion peop...
Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World
Immigration has become the great divisive issue of our times. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts set out a policy vision that can empower ref...
Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Here, world-renowne...
Facing the New Anxieties
*FEATURED IN BILL GATES'S 2019 SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS* From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capit...
Democracy in Dangerous Places
The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing eco...
How to Reconcile Prosperity With Nature
How can we help poorer countries become richer without harming the planet? Is there a way of reconciling prosperity with nature? World-renowned econom...
Countries emerging from civil war attract both aid and policy advice. This paper provides the first systematic empirical analysis of aid and policy re...
The Mediterranean 1940โ1945
This book explores the idea that the Mediterranean theater of the Second World War was the first truly modern war. It was a highly mobile conflict, in...
Written by leading authors in the field with both clinical and molecular expertise, Human Virology provides an accessible introduction to this fascina...
Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making
Accounting for Managers explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers. The book emphasises the interpretation, rather than the...
Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ros...
Options and Actions
Research carried out by the World Bank on the root causes of conflict and civil war finds that a developing country's economic dependence on natural r...
The duration of large-scale violent civil conflict increases substantially if the society is composed of a few large ethnic groups, if there is extens...
Not surprisingly, extreme negative export price shocks reduce growth. But these adverse effects can be mitigated through offsetting increases in aid. ...
Building an Inclusive World Economy
Globalization - the growing integration of economies and societies around the world, is a complex process. The focus of this research is the impact of...
Ujamaa and Rural Development in the United Republic of Tanzania
Rural Tanzania, one of the poorest areas of the world, has been the arena for bold social and economic official experiments which have commanded world...
Civil War and Development Policy
Civil wars attract much less attention than international wars but they are becoming increasingly common and typically go on for years. Where developm...
Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and what Can be Done about it
Global poverty, economist Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 5...
This book explores the idea that the Mediterranean theatre of World War II was the first truly modern war - a highly mobile conflict in which logistic...
What LDCs Can Do, and how Others Can Help
This is a valuable addition to the existing body of knowledge relating both to the understanding of the challenges faced by LDCs and the policy option...
Politics After Individualism
Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced...
This assessment, undertaken for the ILO, is based on a broader and sounder set of data than any previous attempt to appraise the Tanzanian experience....
Paul Collierโs contributions to development economics,and in regard to Africa in particular, have marked him out as one of the most influential comm...
Defining the Issues
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Vol. 4: The Mediterranean 1940-1945
The Mediterranean, 1940-1945
"This book explores the idea that the Mediterranean theater of the Second World War was the first truly modern war. It was a highly mobile conflict, i...
This paper sets flight capital in the context of portfolio choice, focusing upon the proportion of private wealth that is held abroad. There are large...
An Analytic Survey
On the basis of a comparative study of 23 episodes involving commodity price shocks we find that both the public and private sectors typically save ar...
The period from 1960 to 2000 was one of remarkable growth and transformation in the world economy. Why did most of Sub-Saharan Africa fail to develop ...
The 2006 edition of CIMA's Official Study Systems have been updated to reflect changes in the syllabus. Risk and Control Strategy has been written by ...
A Neoclassical Approach to Structuralism
This book develops macroeconomic theory for small open economies characterized by the sort of controls which make much of existing neoclassical econom...
Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War gi...
Transforming a Broken Refugee System
'Betts and Collier offer innovative insights into how to more effectively meet this challenge, with an important new focus on international solidarity...
Consequences of Negative External Shocks in Ghana and the Cรดte D'Ivoire, 1979-87
This book analyzes economic developments of Indonesia and Nigeria during the period 1950-85. It addresses why Indonesia was so much more successful th...