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Paul Collier
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics, Oxford University.
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The Last Resource Frontier
Paul Collier Series: Into Africa 2011-02-25Too often in Africa’s history, money that should have financed productive investment has been looted or squandered. The challenge now is to prevent the continent’s sad history of exploitation from repeating itself during the coming era of massive resource extraction.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10458
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Does Military Intervention Work?
Paul Collier and Bjørn Lomborg Series: Frontiers of Growth 2008-04-30Peacekeeping initiatives in post-conflict countries are expensive and complex, and the war in Iraq has undermined rich nations’ belief in their likely success. But, used as one part of a package that includes aid and limits military spending, peacekeeping initiatives remain an effective way to stabilize fragile nations and reduce the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable people.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 23208
