Articles by Paul Collier
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Here’s the Answer to Your Migrant Crisis, Mr Cameron
Paul Collier – The Spectator,
7 Sep 2015
Victorian ladies would sometimes deliberately leave valuables conspicuously ‘mislaid’ in the hopes that their servants would succumb to stealing them, affording their mistresses delectable opportunities for moral grandstanding. We now recognise this as a breach of a basic moral duty of the fortunate towards the less fortunate: ‘Thou shall not tempt.’ Currently, if a refugee can get a foot on a European beach, or be fished out of the sea by a European rescue vessel, they get privileged access to asylum. That is why they take the risk.
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Paul Collier – The Independent,
8 Mar 2010
A hybrid agency run by government and donors could better direct aid.In responding to the Haitian earthquake, Non-Governmental Organisations are the heroes of the hour. Even before the disaster Haiti had 10,000 of them, more per head than anywhere else in the world. They were providing most of the country’s schools and health clinics. As […]
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