牛津大学的发展经济学家保罗·科利尔（ Paul Collier ）估计全世界最贫困的人口中有 75% 生活在那些刚刚从冲突中复原或者依然深陷于冲突之中的国家，而非洲国家就占了绝大多数。
The Oxford development economist Paul Collier reckons that 75% of the poorest people in the world live in countries that have only recently recovered from conflict or are still in conflict. Most of them are in Africa.