Bold, Chris2012-08-132012-08-132009-11https://hdl.handle.net/10986/10522Paul Collier estimates that 73 percent of the poorest billion people in the world live in countries affected by conflict. In this book 'The Bottom Billion,' conflict is the first of the 'traps' responsible for keeping the populations of some countries in poverty. The author argues that low or negative economic growth in a country dramatically increases the chance of conflict.CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGOACCESS TO CAPITALBANK ACCOUNTSBUSINESS ENVIRONMENTBUSINESSESCALL CENTERCIVIL WARECONOMIC GROWTHENABLING ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTSEXPORTERSFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTHARMONIZATIONINCOMEINDUSTRIAL BASEINFORMAL SECTORINSTITUTIONINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTINVESTMENT CLIMATEJOBSJOINT VENTURELOANLOCAL BUSINESSMARKET DEVELOPMENTMICROFINANCEMOBILE PHONEPRIVATE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSPRIVATE SECTORPRIVATE SECTOR COMPANIESPRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENTPROCUREMENTRAIDRAIDSREGULATORY ENVIRONMENTSMALL BUSINESSESTARGETSTAXTECHNICAL ASSISTANCETELECOMTELECOMMUNICATIONSTELEPHONEVALUE CHAINSWorld Bank10.1596/10522