Paul Collier
Professor of Economics
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. In 2008, Paul was awarded a CBE for services to scholarship and development. He is the author of The Bottom Billion and most recently, The Plundered Planet. Click here to find out more about Paul Collier.
What should we make of the new UK aid?
Posted 4 March 2011
The Department for International Development is already the most respected of the country-to-country development agencies. But in the past it has been distracted by extraneous domestic political interests. In Andrew Mitchell, the department has a Secretary of State who is manifestly committed to the job in hand. He has brought a new agenda which can, [...]
