That is the title of Paul Collier's new book. Nail Ferguson reviews the book in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. Collier summarizes the argument in the book in the Sunday Times of London.
Collier's basic argument is captured in this paragraph from his op-ed:
The clarion call for the left is Jeffrey Sachs’s book The End of Poverty. Much as I agree with Sachs’s passionate call to action, I think he has overplayed the importance of aid. Aid alone will not solve the problems of the bottom billion – we need to use a wider range of policies.
Collier also takes a shot at Bill Easterly's White Man's Burden. It is his intent to stand between the two --- embrace growth, embrace markets as the most effective means of achieving growth, but also have a positive role for international efforts to help build markets and more importantly to curtail the social conflicts that plague the societies where the bottom billion try to live their lives. That final sentiment is, like Sachs's sentiments, understandable but more a notional demand, rather than an effective demand. How are we in the West going to solve the internal conflicts in African countries? Chris Coyne's After War is going to be a very important work for all these guys to read carefully to scale back western ambitions at establishing markets and democracy abroad through either chosing sides and/or 'peace-keeping' activities. However, Collier does mention changes in trade policy as a major component of any policy steps to address the bottom billion.