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xv, 403 pages ; 21 cm Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them Poverty and plunder Is nature priceless? Cursed by nature? Discovering natural assets The capture of natural assets Selling the family silver Investing in investing Is a fish a natural asset? Natural liabilities Romance and hunger Restoring natural order Hunter Lewis. Includes bibliographical references and index. Economics Economía HB 71 L674e 2017 330 9781604191141 (hardcover) 1604191147 (hardcover) 2017021600 DLC 170713 20261014172747.0 19783218 eng