Would we be more serious about committing and rebuilding Haiti over the next decade if we found that a Taliban training camp had been established inside Haiti’s borders?  Would we be more serious about climate change if a polar bear showed-up in the backyard?  Would we be more serious about addressing homelessness if one received a picture, profile and in-person introduction to the homeless person your tax dollars were funding?  

Paul Collier has a simple formula to address the needs of the bottom billion of the world’s population.