Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.
Paul CollierTags: poverty development poverty-alleviation aid
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.
Paul CollierTags: development social-change aid
Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.
Paul CollierTags: poverty development
Not all developing countries are the same.
Paul CollierTags: poverty development
Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.
Paul CollierTags: poverty
Persuading everyone to behave decently to each other because the society is so fragile is a worthy goal, but it may be more straightforward just to make the societies less fragile, which means developing their economies.
Paul CollierTags: war poverty development
Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income, slow growth, and dependence upon primary commodity exports. It is playing Russian roulette. That is not just an idle metaphor: the risk that a country in the bottom billion falls into civil war in any five-year period is nearly one in six, the same risk facing a player of Russian roulette.
Paul CollierTags: war poverty development
Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.
Paul CollierTags: courage heroism poverty social-change
The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.
Paul CollierTags: public-opinion reform international-aid
The critical changes in trade policy... are politically difficult not because they threaten interests (they don't) but because they do not fit into any of the current slogans and so don't make it onto the agenda.
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