Tag: Bottom Billion

  • Assess the View that Poor Countries Will Always Remain Poor (20)

    An essay plan including Modernisation and Dependency Theory, Neoliberalism and World System’s Theory, Bottom Billion and Neo-Modernisation theory, as well as contemporary trends such as war and conflict and environmental decline and case studies such as India, China, Afghanistan and Haiti. Introduction The view in the question is most closely associated with Dependency Theory which argued that poor countries…

  • The Bottom Billion – Paul Collier – A Summary

    Global poverty has been falling for decades, but a few countries which are caught in four distinct traps (such as the resource curse) are falling behind and falling apart. Aid does not work well in these places but there are things we can and should do because neglect will pose a security nightmare for the…