[ 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. [LondonGazette |issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |startpage=7 |supp=yes |notarchive=yes]
He is currently working for the Copenhagen Consensus, where he is the expert on conflict.
Work
Research Topics
* Governance in low-income countries, especially the political economy of democracy
* Economic growth in Africa
* Economics of civil war, aid, globalisation and poverty
* The greed vs grievance debate in international relations
elected Publications
* "Labour and poverty in rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and rural development in the United Republic of Tanzania"
* "The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It" (ISBN 0195311450)
* (with Anke Hoeffler) ‘On economic causes of civil war’ "Oxford Economic Papers", vol 50 iss 4, (1998), pp 563-573.
* (with Anke Hoeffler) ‘Greed and grievance in civil war’ "Oxford Economic Papers", vol 56 iss 4, (2004), pp 563-595.
* (with Lisa Chauvet and Haavard Hegre) 'The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries', Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper, (2008).
Video
* [http://www.res.org.uk/society/lecture2006.asp The Royal Economic Society's 2006 Annual Public Lecture, by Prof. Coller]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3692837809306659969&q=paul+collier&total=49&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2 Interview with Fareed Zakaria on Foreign Exchange]
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/270 TED Conference, Paul Collier on "The Bottom Billion"]
Press
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4858ed7e-0178-11dc-8b8c-000b5df10621.html Review of the Bottom Billion by the Financial Times]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?pagewanted=1 Review of the Bottom Billion in The New York Times]
* [http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/File/Lancet_102707.pdf Review of The Bottom Billion by William Easterly in The Lancet]
ee also
*Dutch Disease
*Resource Curse
*Economic Rent
References
External links
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/ Prof. Paul Collier's home page at Oxford University]
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/research/africa.htm Links to downloadable research papers on Africa, Aid, Conflict, Political Economy and other topics]
* [http://writerinterviews.blogspot.com/2007/08/paul-collier.html Interview with Paul Collier by J. Tyler Dickovick]
* [http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk/video/200711_collier.cfm Video of recent talk at Oxford University - "The Bottom Billion"]
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/270 TED Talk: 4 ways to improve the lives of the bottom billion]
