Wars, guns and votes - Paul Collier

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Title
Wars, guns and votes - democracy in dangerous places
Author
Paul Collier
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20100304

The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. For them, the peaceful democracy taken for granted in the West seems an impossible pipe-dream.

But solutions do exist - it is up to us to achieve them. Award-winning academic Paul Collier's vision for the future of the developing world is eye-opening, provocative and refreshingly unequivocal.

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Paul Collier is a professor of economics at Oxford University. The author of The Bottom Billion, which won the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize for the world's best book on international affairs, he has lectured widely on the subjects of economics and international relations.

Very important ideas based on extremely thorough empirical research...put him in the same camp as real heavyweights such as the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz
Guardian - Misha Glenny

Collier comes up with very concrete proposals and some ingenious solutions
The Times

Collier knows Africa intimately... It is hard to be unmoved by his anger about the world's blindness to realities, and his passion to do things better
Sunday Times - Max Hastings

With its verve, wit and lateral thinking, this is a book that changes its readers' horizons
Observer

It is always a pleasure to discover Paul Collier's latest thoughts...always illuminating and grounded in rigorous social science...it's gripping stuff
Literary Review - Allister Heath

Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Political violence - Developing countries.|Power (Social sciences) - Developing countries.|Democracy - Developing countries.|Developing countries - Politics and government.
Country of Publication
England
Number of Pages
255

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