Die Welt besteht, ökonomisch gesehen, aus einem Kuchen mit sechs Stücken. Das erste Sechstel lebt im Wohlstand und - ganz überwiegend - im Westen. Das zweite bis fünfte Sechstel sind jene Entwicklungsländer, mit denen es bei allen Unterschieden langsam, aber stetig aufwärts geht. Das...

Sub-Saharan Africa's turnaround over the past couple of decades has been dramatic. After many years in decline, the continent's economy picked up in the mid-1990s. Along with this macroeconomic growth, people became healthier, many more youngsters attended schools, and the rate of extreme...

Global poverty, economist Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. Here, Collier contends that these fifty...

Sub-Saharan Africa's turnaround over the past couple of decades has been dramatic. After many years in decline, the continent's economy picked up in the mid-1990s. Along with this macroeconomic growth, people became healthier, many more youngsters attended schools, and the rate of extreme...