Democracy in Dangerous Places
Paul Collier (Professor of Economics, Oxford University / Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies)
co-sponsored with the Department of Economics


Wednesday, February 11, 2009
7:00-8:30 pm
Annenberg Auditorium
  

Paul Collier is a leading expert on the economics of developing nations and the author of The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It, which won the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award and the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize. His areas of interest include the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid; and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resource-rich societies.

Full abstract of Collier's Feb 11, 2009 talk.


Info on Collier's new book, Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places.