Our next guest says countries that are home to the world’s poorest billion have much in common with the fourteenth century. Enduring civil war, plagues and even ignorance.

He also says the rest of the developed world cannot afford to ignore the plight of the world’s poorest billion people.

Paul Collier is the author of The Bottom Billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.

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