The Bottom Billion: Post Two

According the Paul Collier the author of The Bottom Billion, the poorest countries in the world usually fall into traps that keep them impoverished. One of these traps is the conflict trap, this typically refers to civil wars or coups. These things tend to keep countries unstable therefore not progressing as they should be. As it turns out the political repression is not the main reason for civil wars breaking out. Take China for example, they are constantly being repressed, but they have yet to have political violence (apart from Tienanmen Square),  this is mostly because the government actually works out for them and has brought so many citizens out of poverty. One of the defining factors for civil war is having a large portion of the population living under the poverty line. People who are most likely to participate in political violence are young, uneducated and without any dependents. Civil wars and political violence are extremely detrimental to not only the country itself but also to all the surrounding countries because of the collapsed economy. Wars and coups keep love income countries from from growing and that keeps them dependent upon exports of primary commodities and because of this they remain poor which leads to wars and coups which keeps them poor, its a never ending cycle, this definitely affects the world in such a way that the G8 should want to step in and interfere with this.