Contents
Preface ix
Part 1 What’s the Issue?
1. Falling Behind and Falling Apart:
    The Bottom Billion 3

Part 2 The Traps
2. The Con􀀮ict Trap 17
3. The Natural Resource Trap 38
4. Landlocked with Bad Neighbors 53
5. Bad Governance in a Small Country 64

Part 3 An Interlude: Globalization to the Rescue?
6. On Missing the Boat: The Marginalization
of the Bottom Billion in the World Economy 79

Part 4 The Instruments
7. Aid to the Rescue? 99
8. Military Intervention 124
9. Laws and Charters 135
10. Trade Policy for Reversing Marginalization 157

Part 5 The Struggle for the Bottom Billion
11. An Agenda for Action 175
Research on Which This Book Is Based 193
Index 197