I call it the rising billion.

I think it's closer to a billion.

Paul Collier on the bottom billion

But it's basically you can pull one out of a billion.

The world is converging, but but but not the bottom billion.

And now the question for you in which the billion dollar prize rests

And Hasbro made about, you know, a billion and a half dollars.

We have no geological record prior for the first billion years.

What do you think you have in a month? We're at a billion.

That's what we're seeing across the bottom billion at the moment.

There is still mystery in one billion.

And each day, almost a billion people are

In 2010, we had just short of two billion people online, connected.

And so, what the countries of the bottom billion need is very strong checks and balances.

And Hasbro made about, you know, a billion and a half dollars.

One in a million, one in a billion they're both almost never.

On February 25, 2007, Netflix delivered its billionth DVD.

Really fast.

But basically you can pull one out of a billion, and make lots of amplifications to it.

It's, How can we give credible hope to that billion people?

In all the societies of the bottom billion, there are intense struggles to do just that.

We have local numbers accessible to three quarters of a billion people on the planet.

So, the question is, are the bottom billion above or below that threshold?

The next quarter billion will be added in half that time.

A big bite of this consumption was from the Arabic speaking countries.

Compassion, because a billion people are living in societies that have not offered credible hope.

So, the flow of resources from the commodity booms to the bottom billion are without precedent.

And that's the bottom billion, where we've heard today about a completely new approach to do it.

Perhaps Hu Jia and Chen Guancheng represent this silent billion more than the Party does.

Once you find that one out of a billion, you infect it into a bacteria, and make millions and billions of copies of that particular sequence.

The entire aid flows to the 60 countries of the bottom billion last year were 34 billion.

So I thought, well, maybe that is the thing which has transformed governance in the bottom billion.

Official communications were very limited, and annual bilateral trade was under 1 billion.

The European Union is now spending over one billion euros annually translating among their 23 official languages.

We need a new mindset. The world is converging, but but but not the bottom billion.

Moreover, Africa now boasts more than 100 homegrown companies with annual revenue of more than 1 billion. Banking and retail are flourishing.

And a current integrated circuit might have in each one of these chips something like a billion transistors, all of which have to work perfectly every time.

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Well, the thesis of The Bottom Billion is that a billion people have been stuck living in economies that have been stagnant for 40 years, and hence diverging from the rest of mankind.

The opportunity we're going to look to is a genuine basis for optimism about the bottom billion, and that is the commodity booms.

The commodity booms are pumping unprecedented amounts of money into many, though not all, of the countries of the bottom billion.

The aggregate numbers now are that basically squatters, all one billion of them, are building the urban world, which means they're building the world personally, one by one, family by family, clan by clan, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Once you find that one out of a billion, you infect it into a bacteria, and you make millions and billions of copies of that particular sequence.

By the early 1980s, China's population reached around 1 billion and by the early 2000s, surpassed 1.3 billion.

But what I'd like to talk about today is the fact that this morning, about a billion people on Earth or one out of every seven woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup.