Paul Collier: 14 books
Wars, Guns, and Votes
Democracy in Dangerous Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Before...
The Bottom Billion : Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
Global poverty Paul Collier points out is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states the bottom billion whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion Collier contends that...
Exodus
hoe migratie onze wereld verandert
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Hoe migratie onze wereld verandert
Nooit eerder waren jonge mensen in arme landen zich zo bewust van de mogelijkheden buiten hun eigen land. Het gevolg is migratie op grote schaal, waardoor zelfs hele landen ontvolkt kunnen raken. In de gastlanden wonen mensen van allerlei nationaliteiten,...
The Plundered Planet
Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's...
by Paul Collier
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Paul Collier’s contributions to development economics,and in regard to Africa in particular, have marked him out as one of the most influential commentators of recent times. His research has centred upon the causes and consequences of civil war, the effects of aid, and the problems of democracy...
The Future of Capitalism
Facing the New Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019
From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western...
Refuge
Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined "basic needs," has changed little. In Refuge, Paul Collier and Alexander Betts argue that the system fails to provide a...
Exodus
How Migration is Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our...
Power and Care
Toward Balance for Our Common Future—Science, Society, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines discuss the compatibility of power and care, in conversation with the Dalai Lama.
For more than thirty years, the Dalai Lama has been in dialogue with thinkers from a range of disciplines, helping to support pathways for knowledge to increase human...
by Graham Hutchings, Matthew Davidson, Richard Catlow;Christopher Hardacre;Nicholas Turner;Paul Collier
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The UK Catalysis Hub is a consortium of universities working together on fundamental and applied research to find out how catalysts work and to improve their effectiveness. The contribution of catalysis to manufacturing contributes to almost 40% of global GDP, making development and innovation within...
by David Horner, Robin Havers, Professor Alastair Finlan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Labouring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were driven to extremes of selfless loyalty, dogged determination or bitter...
The Second World War (4)
The Mediterranean 1940–1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
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 which logistics were a critical and often deciding factor, and from the very beginning a close relationship between the land, sea, and air elements...
Signs and Symptoms in Family Medicine E-Book
A Literature-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Signs and Symptoms in Family Medicine, by Paul M. Paulman, MD et al, provides a unique evidence-based approach to diagnosis based on presenting signs. Focusing on the most common diagnoses observed in a medical practice, the book helps you "think horses, not zebras." A rating system for...
by Paul M. Collier
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Both financial and non-financial managers with accountability for performance at either a strategic level or for a business unit have responsibility for risk management, in terms of failing to achieve organisational objectives.
Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk management is structured around four parts...