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Utopia Translation Series 022 War, Guns and Ballots
Why is political violence so common in extremely poor societies? How can it be contained? In areas with one billion of the poorest people in the world, such as Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and other African countries, their tribal traditions prevent the people from forming a national identity, and elections cannot prevent inter-tribal wars. Structural deficiencies in the countries in these regions have also prevented normal economic development, and the people can only rely on international assistanc
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The Bottom Billion People
It is common knowledge that Africa is very poor. In order to explain the problem of poverty, the author of this book, Paul Collier, proposed the concept of the "bottom billion people". Most of them live in countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with long-term socioeconomic stagnation and no hope of improvement. In this book, Collier combines solid data and concise reasoning to analyze four types of traps that restrict the sustainable development of these poor countries: conflict, natural resources, be
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