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Rasmus Heltberg | 04 January 2025I welcome Andy Sumner’s lucid article on the fact that most of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries and what that means for development.I agree with Sumner that this brings microeconomic issues, inequality in particular, to the for...
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Amy Pollard | 19 December 2024Andy Sumner’s research on the new bottom billion has been on the lips of almost every development professional I know for the last few months. The revelation that 75% of poor people might actually live in middle-income, rather than low-income coun...
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Ali Abdel Gadir Ali | June 18, 2025In this contribution we directly address the four queries posed for the debate. To do so we need to note at the outset that from a development perspective it can easily be argued that the adoption of the MDGs by the world community in September 20...
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Rajwant Sandhu | June 17, 2025As Andy Sumner has stated in his article of 26th May, 2009 “Rethinking Development Policy 2015”, the MDGs are viewed as a set of indicators for guiding poverty reduction and for holding international agencies and governments accountable to citizen...
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Paul Hoebink | July 28, 2025The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, by Paul Collier. Oxford University Press, 2007.A review by Paul Hoebink.
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Nadia Molenaers, Robrecht Renard | June 19, 2025We see two major issues that Europe could and should address as a matter of some urgency: combating European donor proliferation, and harmonizing policy analysis and policy dialogue. Both aspects relate to the Development Assistance Committee (DAC...
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Frans Bieckmann | November 28, 2024One of the hot books in international development circles at the moment is Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, by Paul Collier, formerly of the World Bank and currently director o...
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