Wars, Guns and Votes

Wars, Guns and Votes
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781446450185
ISBN-13 : 144645018X
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Book Synopsis Wars, Guns and Votes by : Paul Collier

Download or read book Wars, Guns and Votes written by Paul Collier and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing economies. For them, the peaceful democracy taken for granted in the West seems an impossible pipe-dream. But solutions do exist - it is up to us to achieve them. Award-winning academic Paul Collier's vision for the future of the developing world is eye-opening, provocative and refreshingly unequivocal.


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