Our featured speaker Paul Collier is an Author and Oxford Economist.
A group of countries with one billion people have diverged from the rest of mankind and are falling further and further behind. If this continues, it will be both a tragedy and a nightmare. Helping them to catch up will require not just money but a much smarter use of other policies. Only once passion is harnessed to intelligence will our policies change, and that is why students are vital in the struggle for the bottom billion.