Paul Collier

Paul Collier is professor of economics at Oxford University and director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies there. His latest book is The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press, 2007). His homepage is here.

Europe, Africa and EPAs: opportunity or car-crash?

Europe's trade policy has the potential to be a powerful instrument for African development. To date it hasn't been. The central element of this policy since

By Paul Collier

/ 7 Jan 2008

The aid evasion and the "bottom billion"

Since the 1960s countries with around a billion people have been diverging from the rest of the world at an accelerating rate, a trend which will generate unmanageable social pressures.

By Paul Collier

/ 11 Jun 2007