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Paul Collier Biography

Sir Paul Collier, CBE, FBA (born 23 April 1949) is professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is also a director of the International Growth Centre, the director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.

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At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

Block, Blocking, Men, Societies, Successful

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Citizens, Gestures, Informed, Moving

There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime. . . had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.

Book, Financial, Make, Northern, Rocks, Simple

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

Determine, Election, Power, Used

You can tell everybody that Eddie Robinson's out looking for a job right now, and believe me, he's a great kid. He's happy and he's healthy. All he needs is a couple of weeks to regain game fitness. Put him on the court and when the game counts. . . Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing. He's a great athlete, and I love him to death.

Believe, Couple, Fitness, Healthy, Jobs, Love

Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

Basketball, Losing, Winning, Word

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious. . . If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

Children, Compassion, Credible, Self, Serious

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Bottom, Change, Come, Impose, Predominantly

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Law, Peer, Peer Pressure, Peers, Pressure, Voluntary

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Bottom, Opportunity, Photo, Real, Use

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

Carries, Citizens, Citizenship, Responsibilities, Responsibility

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

Analyzed, Has Beens, Migration, Politicized

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Poor, Poverty, Trap, Traps