What President-elect Obama needs to know about the global food crisis

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The Takeaway talks with economist Paul Collier. Collier is director of the Center for the Study of African Economies, professor at Oxford University and author of ‘The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.’

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