On August 2nd, The Economist published a review of Collier’s new book and suggests that it aims to fill the void between Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty and William Easterly's The White Man's Burden.
From the article:
"Most of them (the poorest countries) are caught, as Mr Collier describes it, in one or more of four traps: wars, in which 73% of the poorest have been caught at one time or another; natural resources gone wrong (think of Nigeria and its oil), which accounts for about 30%; landlocked with bad neighbors (look at Chad); and the bad-governance-in-a-small-country trap (too many to name)."
