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Paul Collier

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Sir Paul Collier, (born 23 April 1949) is professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. [1]

58 relations: Academics Stand Against Poverty, Anthony Venables, Blavatnik School of Government, British Academy, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Climate change denial, Copenhagen Consensus, Denialism, Development aid, EconTalk, Environmental politics, Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World, Extremism, Fellow of the British Academy, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, FP Top 100 Global Thinkers, Genetically modified organism, Globalization, Good governance, Greed and fear, Greed versus grievance, Harper (publisher), International Growth Centre, Jeffrey Sachs, Jeremy Bentham, King Edward VII School, Sheffield, Knight Bachelor, Liberty Fund, Media Legal Defence Initiative, National academy, Order of the British Empire, Overfishing, Oxford University Press, Political economy, Politics of global warming, President's Medal (British Academy), Royal Economic Society, Science (journal), Sheffield, Sheffield Star, St Antony's College, Oxford, Stern Review, Sustainable management, Tanzania, The Bottom Billion, The Economist, The End of Poverty, The Guardian, Tragedy of the commons, ..., Ujamaa, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, Utilitarianism, William Easterly, World Bank, World Economic Forum, 2008 Birthday Honours. Expand index (8 more) »

Academics Stand Against Poverty

Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is an international network of scholars, teachers, and students working to mobilize the resources of academia to help alleviate poverty.

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Anthony Venables

Anthony James Venables, CBE, (born 25 April, 1953), is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.

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Blavatnik School of Government

The Blavatnik School of Government is a school of public policy founded in 2010 at the University of Oxford in England.

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British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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Centre for the Study of African Economies

The Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) has been undertaking research on Africa since 1986, and is part of the Department of Economics under the Social Sciences Division at Oxford University.

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Climate change denial

Climate change denial, or global warming denial, is part of the global warming controversy.

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Copenhagen Consensus

Copenhagen Consensus is a project that seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics, using cost–benefit analysis.

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Denialism

In the psychology of human behavior, denialism is a person's choice to deny reality, as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth.

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Development aid

Development aid or development cooperation (also development assistance, technical assistance, international aid, overseas aid, official development assistance (ODA), or foreign aid) is financial aid given by governments and other agencies to support the economic, environmental, social, and political development of developing countries.

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EconTalk

EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast hosted by Russ Roberts.

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Environmental politics

Environmental politics designate both the politics about the environment (see also environmental policy) and an academic field of study focused on three core components:Carter, Neil.

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Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World

Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World (titled Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century for its UK release) is a 2013 book by the development economist Paul Collier about the way migration affects migrants as well as the countries that send and receive the migrants, and the implications this has for development economics and the quest to end poverty.

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Extremism

Extremism means, literally, "the quality or state of being extreme" or the "advocacy of extreme measures or views".

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Fellow of the British Academy

Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is an American news publication, founded in 1970 and focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

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FP Top 100 Global Thinkers

Foreign Policy magazine recognizes the world's pre-eminent thought leaders and public intellectuals in an annual issue, "100 Leading Global Thinkers".

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Genetically modified organism

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques (i.e., a genetically engineered organism).

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Globalization

Globalization or globalisation is the process of interaction and integration between people, companies, and governments worldwide.

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Good governance

Good governance is an indeterminate term used in the international development literature to describe how public institutions conduct public affairs and manage public resources.

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Greed and fear

Greed and fear refer to two intrinsic emotional states relating to the topic of unpredictability of stock market.

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Greed versus grievance

The phrase "greed versus grievance" or "greed and grievance" refer to the two baseline arguments put forward by scholars of armed conflict on the causes of civil war, though the argument has been extended to other forms of war, such as violent conflict in general, rebellion and insurgency for example.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.

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International Growth Centre

The International Growth Centre (IGC) is a research centre based at the London School of Economics operated in partnership with the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

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Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor, the highest rank Columbia bestows on its faculty.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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King Edward VII School, Sheffield

King Edward VII School (KES) is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Liberty Fund

Liberty Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana which promulgates the libertarian views of its founder, Pierre F. Goodrich through publishing, conferences, and educational resources.

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Media Legal Defence Initiative

The Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (or Media Legal Defense Initiative) is a non-governmental organization established in 2008 to provide legal assistance to journalists (including bloggers) and independent media.

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National academy

A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, most frequently in the sciences but also the humanities.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Overfishing

Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish from a body of water at a rate that the species cannot replenish in time, resulting in those species either becoming depleted or very underpopulated in that given area.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Political economy

Political economy is the study of production and trade and their relations with law, custom and government; and with the distribution of national income and wealth.

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Politics of global warming

The complex politics of global warming results from numerous cofactors arising from the global economy's interdependence on carbon dioxide emitting hydrocarbon energy sources and because is directly implicated in global warming—making global warming a non-traditional environmental challenge.

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President's Medal (British Academy)

The President's Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to five individuals or organisations.

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Royal Economic Society

The Royal Economic Society (RES) is a professional association that promotes the study of economic science in academia, government service, banking, industry, and public affairs.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield Star

The Star, often known as the Sheffield Star, is a daily newspaper published in Sheffield, England, from Monday to Saturday each week.

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St Antony's College, Oxford

St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Stern Review

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change is a 700-page report released for the Government of the United Kingdom on 30 October 2006 by economist Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE) and also chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) at Leeds University and LSE.

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Sustainable management

Sustainable management takes the concepts from sustainability and synthesizes them with the concepts of management.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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The Bottom Billion

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It is a 2007 book by Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, exploring the reasons why impoverished countries fail to progress despite international aid and support.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The End of Poverty

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time is a 2005 book by American economist Jeffrey Sachs.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tragedy of the commons

The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.

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Ujamaa

Ujamaa ('familyhood' in Swahili) was the concept that formed the basis of Julius Nyerere's social and economic development policies in Tanzania after it gained independence from Britain in 1961.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Utilitarianism

Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility.

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William Easterly

William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957) is an American economist, specializing in economic development.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland.

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2008 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 2008 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Collier

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