Introduction Going by the scholarly reviews that have been done on the book The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier and the numerous praiseworthy comments that have made on it; this book is undoubtedly a geographically-oriented economic masterpiece worth being given a serious reading. According to Wolf (2007) of the venerated Financial Times, this book is indeed “a splendid book” which sheds light on the dark moral challenges that often impede the bottom billion countries from actualizing their economic goals. Stewart (2007) of the Guardian calls it an “important book” and rallies behind Collier who, in the book, calls for well-performing countries—especially those positioned in the western geographical hemisphere of the world—to use their resources in areas like technology to help uplifting the suffering countries. Stewart’s sentiments are echoed by Quinn (2008) who says that the book is a well written masterpiece talking of “a paradigm shift away from poverty alleviation as a goal of development”. All these strong opinions of the book, from authoritative sources duly qualify the book as an epitome of invaluable information on the nature of economies today (Reinert, 2011). Of course, like many other books, there have been a few scholars who have opined that some places in the book were a bit too obvious (like the nature of poverty in Africa) or exaggerated (like the role of western governments in helping in poverty alleviation). However, in one way or another, even these critics have confessed that, generally speaking, the book is an epitome of resourceful information. It is on the basis of such scholarly arguments that the expansive review, detailed below, is done. Book Summary Who is the author? As glimpsed in the introduction, the Bottom Billion was written by Paul Collier. According to the Centre for the Study of African economies (2010), Paul Collier is an astute Professor of Economics, a revered director for the Centre for the Study of African economies at Oxford University and a widely published author whose several books and articles numerous scholarly genres have received a good number of honorary accolades. For example, in 1988, he was prized with the Edgar Graham Book Prize for his worthwhile writings in the book Labour and poverty in rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and rural development in the United Republic of Tanzania. In 2008, the Bottom Billion deservedly “won the Lionel Gelber, Arthur Ross and Corine prizes ” typifying how good the book was written ( Centre for the Study of African economies , 2010). Even more importantly, between 1998 and 2003, he served as a director of the development research group of the World Bank where he was not only able to conduct many high-profile researches on the geographical nature of economic power across the world but he also accessed several factual statistics and proofs of poverty in the world. As will be explicatively detailed later, working in the World Bank greatly helped in getting valuable information which he later used to validate and support his arguments in the Bottom Billion. As of today, Paul Collier continues to serve his aforementioned roles while he occasionally writes for magazines and newspapers like the Independent