Ur Collier, the bottom billion
15 jan 2010, kl 11:49
bergh in real development

Efter två kapitel är jag mycket förtjust i Paul Colliers sätt att uttrycka sig. Ibland kan man dock ana att hans vilja att placera sig själv mellan höger och vänster, är något av en strategi för att få större trovärdighet (inget fel i detta, dock!).

Ett exempel: Om tillväxt skriver han i preface så här (s. xi-xii):

The left will find that approaches it has discounted, such as military interventions, trade, and encouraging growth, are critical means to the ends it has long embraced. The right will find that, unlike the challenge of global poverty reduction, the problem of the bottom billion will not be fixed automatically by global growth ...

Lite annan ton (men absolut ingen motsägelse) är det i nästa kapitel (s 11):

While I was directing the World Bank's research department, the most controversial paper we produced was one called "Growth Is Good for the Poor" Some NGOs hated it ...

In strategy documents the word [growth] is now generally seen only in the context of the phrase "sustainable, pro-poor growth." Yet ... the problem of the bottom billion has not been that they have hade the wrong type of growth, it is that they have not had any growth.

Collier själv om boken på TED-talks.

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