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Paul Collier,Author & Award-winning Oxford University Economist

Born in Yorkshire, England, Dr. Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. He formerly served as Director of Research at the World Bank and as an advisor to the British government’s commission on Africa. He is one of the world’s leading experts on African economies, and is the author of Breaking the Conflict Trap, among other books. In The Bottom Billion, Collier sees 980 million people around the globe living in “trapped countries clearly heading towards a black hole.” Many of these people are in Africa, but there are large pockets of severe poverty in such places as Bolivia, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Laos, North Korea, Myanmar, Yemen, and elsewhere.

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