Paul Collier, CBE is a Professor of Economics, and the Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at The University of Oxford in England.

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  • Paul Collier, CBE is a Professor of Economics, and the Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at The University of Oxford in England. From from 1998 – 2003 he was the director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. Prof. Collier is a specialist in the political, economical and developmental predicaments of poor countries. He holds a Distinction Award from Oxford University, and in 1988 he was awarded the Edgar Graham Book Prize for the co-written Labour and poverty in rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and rural development in the United Republic of Tanzania. His most recent book, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, has been compared to Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty and William Easterly's The White Man's Burden, two influential books, which like Collier's book, discuss the pros and cons of developmental aid to developing countries. His controversial contribution to the greed vs grievance debate in international relations has reinvigorated the debate. Collier has shown through probabalistic modelling that economic causes correllate much more strongly with civil war onset than political causes, including the "ethnic and religious hatreds" which are often used to explain civil war. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. He is currently working for the Copenhagen Consensus, where he is the expert on conflict. (en)
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  • Paul Collier, CBE is a Professor of Economics, and the Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at The University of Oxford in England. (en)
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  • Paul Collier (en)
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