Paul Collier Quotes
Migrants are essentially escaping from countries with dysfunctional social models.
Paul Collier, British Economist & Political Scientist, Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Quoted in “Let the People Go”, Foreign Affairs, January / February 2014
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In the history of man, states, nations, and countries, have been a very recent development. Even in Afghanistan and some other parts of the world there is little understanding of, desire for, or tolerance of a modern state. Most of the world was that way not so long ago. Even empires were understood long before countries.
There are many who disagree with Stewart on two grounds. First, the failed state sill not use the aid reasonably and it will wind up in the pockets of war lords of terrorist groups. Second, the failed state often becomes a safe haven for terrorist groups to operate and train from.
In 2016 millions of refugees were fleeing the chaos, violence, dictatorships, and revolutions of many of the Muslim Nations of the Middle East and the nations in Africa where Islamists were using violence and terrorism to try and take over the governments. Many, despite the danger, tried to reach Europe, and millions did—–far more than the European governments were prepared to handle and most European populations were unwilling to accept. This immigration created another crisis of its own.
Internal population movement was tightly controlled in China for fear that the huge body of rural peasants would swamp, seeking economic opportunity, the cities. In 2000 the Chinese were debating the wisdom of this policy. See Mau Yushi. “Rice Bowl” is a Chinese euphemistically used to mean “job and and a standard of living.”
DPs were “displaced persons” -- the euphemism for people who were no longer welcome in their country of birth. Congress, made up mostly of immigrants or the children of immigrants who were poor and downtrodden, were not enthusiastic about the United States absorbing many of the world’s DPs resulting from WWII.
Sir Paul Collier, CBE, FBA is a British development economist who serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Blavatnik School of Government and the director of the International Growth Centre. He currently is a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has served as a senior advisor to the Blair Commission for Africa and was the Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank between 1998 and 2003.
