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  • Essay / Poverty in the “Untold Stories” of Buju Banton - 1378

    Paul Collier, professor of economics at the School of Government and author of “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Do about it,” says “This book discusses four traps that have received less attention: the conflict trap, the natural resource trap, the trap of being landlocked with bad neighbors, and the trap of bad governance in a small country." (p. 5) In "Untold Stories", Banton explains how he believes that the government is consciously sabotaging the livelihoods of those who fall below the poverty line and that, in the most perverse way, the government is striving to maintain this standard of living. Banton's words