Paul Collier

...a bank out of business by making excessively risky investments. As proposed by Oxford University economist Paul Collier, prosecutors would become the new bank regulators. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our...

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...developing areas of the world. When addressing the need to maximize natural resources to bring them to development, Collier continually focused on an analogy of links that make up a decision-making chain. "There is a whole chain of...

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...and endure." The World Bank plan would extend the standards underlying the EITI "upstream" and "downstream," following the model proposed by Oxford University economist and Revenue Watch advisory board member Paul Collier. Professor...

In this article: Revenue, World Bank, Value chain, Waste, Tax, Oxford University, and The World Bank

...power is achieved? Or is it how power is exercised? Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, two economists at Oxford University, address these questions in a new paper on oil-rich democracies. Their answer, rooted in statistical analysis of oil...

In this article: Democracy, Nigeria, Iraq, Inflation, Oxford University, Middle East, and United States

...Your Questions Last week, we solicited your questions for award-winning Oxford University economist Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion and the just-published Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places. In his answers...

In this article: Jim Dale, Africa, Democracy, Recession, Harry Potter, Confucian, and Individualism

...extreme forms of global poverty. In his challenging new book, "The Bottom Billion," Oxford University professor Paul Collier details a range of "traps" that limit the potential of the poorest countries. Many of these countries have...

In this article: Michael Gerson, World Trade Organization, West Africa, United States, Waste, Oxford University, Bread for the World, and The Bottom Billion

...moves even further into collapse. So could now be the best time to invest in Zimbabwe? Oxford University economist Paul Collier writes in the Boston Review that Tanzania, which suffered a self-imposed economic train wreck in the 1970's and...

In this article: Inflation, Zimbabwe, Hasbro, Tanzania, Scarlet Tanager, Cash flow, Short squeeze, Hyperinflation, and Dog

...for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. A former World Bank economist like Easterly, Collier shares his former colleague's aversion to what he calls the "headless heart" syndrome - meaning the tendency of people in rich...

In this article: Jeffrey D. Sachs, William Easterly, The Bottom Billion, Africa, Civil war, Oxford University, Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York University, and Oxford University Press

...reconstruction of failed states. He has since returned to his longstanding professorship in economics at Oxford University, where he has written his new book, The Bottom Billion, which brings together for general audiences his academic...

In this article: The Bottom Billion, World Bank, Poverty, United Nations, Darfur, Imperialism, Kosovo, Vladimir Lenin, and Somalia