the poorest people
2013-06-11
I read this book in Sept.2010.
Throught reading this book, I know there are some many people suffering from starvation im small countries which are concentrated in Africa and Central Asia,with a scattering elsewhere.From Paul Collier's research, the issue has never been solved by the governments.And it requires G8 to focus on this issue.
Part 1, What's the issue?
"We must learn to turn the familiar numbers upside down: a total of give billion people who are already prosperous, or at least are on track to be so, and one billion people who are stuck at the bottom."
All societies used to be poor. Most are now lifting out of it;why are others stuck? The answer is traps.Poverty is not intrinsically a trap,otherwise we would all still be poor.
Part 2,The traps
this books tells us there are four traps that have received less attention:the conflict trap,the natural resources trap,the trap of being landlocked with bad neighbors,and the trap of bad governance in a small country.
part 3,An interlude:Globalization to the Resure?
These countires missed boat will now be hard to catch up others because of globalization.
Part 4,The instruments
Hopefully, there are insruments helping them out of poverty.With more aids to resure, military intervention,laws and charters and trade policy for reversing marginalization, we believe that it would be getting better and better.