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The Bottom Billion: Why The Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It is a book by Oxford economist Paul Collier published in 2007.

Contents 'Part I: What's the Issue?' A Personal Preface Chapter 1: Falling Behind and Falling Apart: the Bottom Billion 'Part II: The Traps'

Chapter 2: The Conflict Trap

Chapter 3: The Natural Resource Trap Chapter 4: Landlocked with Bad Neighbors Chapter 5: Bad Governance in a Small Country 'Part III: An Interlude: Globalization to the Rescue?' Chapter 6: On Missing the Boat: the Marginalization of the Bottom Billion in the World Economy 'Part IV: The Instruments' Chapter 7: Aid to the Rescue? Chapter 8: Military Intervention Chapter 9: Laws and Charters Chapter 10: Trade 'Part V: The Struggle for the Bottom Billion' Chapter 11: An Agenda for Action Research on Which This Book Is Based

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication ''Poor -- Developing countries. Poverty -- Developing countries.''