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Author : Mark McGillivray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789291907687
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Aid Allocation and Fragile States written by Mark McGillivray and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: References p. 17-23.
Author : Wim Naudé
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693153
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Fragile States written by Wim Naudé and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragile states are often mired in civil conflict. This volume focuses on the relationship between conflict and state stability and illustrates the causes and effects of fragile states on neighbouring countries and the global community.
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821368486
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Engaging with Fragile States written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During fiscal 2003-05, World Bank lending and administrative budgets to fragile states amounted to $4.1 billion and $161 million, respectively. This report assesses the effectiveness of this Bank support. The report finds that the Bank and the donor community have improved their operational readiness to engage with fragile states, and made substantial progress on donor coordination at the international policy level. Significant challenges remain, however. Donor agendas have been overly ambitious and need to be made more selective, the effectiveness of donor programs needs to be improved after the immediate post-conflict phase in war-ravaged countries when structural change is needed, and donors need to develop transparent aid allocation criteria that ensure that fragile states will be neither under- nor over-aided. The report makes recommendations to overcome these challenges and distills lessons for the Bank and other donors.
Author : David Carment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135257051
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Security, Development and the Fragile State written by David Carment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides theoretical clarity about the concepts of failed and fragile states, which have emerged strongly since the 9/11 attacks. Recent contributions often see the fragile state as either a problem of development or of security. This volume argues that that neither perspective on its own is a sufficient basis for good policy. In a wide-ranging treatment, drawing on large samples as well as case studies, the authors create an alternative model of the fragile state emphasizing the multidimensional, multifaceted nature of the "fragile state problematique". On the basis of their model and empirical evidence, they then derive a number of policy-relevant insights regarding the need for contextualized and ongoing country analysis, the perils and pitfalls of unstructured development assistance, and the need to move whole-of-government approaches from the realm of rhetoric to reality. In offering both a synthesis of existing research and an innovative approach to understanding the fragile state, this volume will be of great interest to students of war and conflict studies, risk, conflict management, and international relations in general. It will also be of use to practitioners in policy circles and to NGOs.
Author : David Carment
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800883471
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Fragile States written by David Carment and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook examines the causes, costs and consequences of state fragility, advancing key debates in the field. Demonstrating the multidimensionality of fragility by applying diverse theories and methodologies, it provides new insights on effective policy development and application in the context of fragile states.
Author : James Manor
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 082136202X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Aid that Works written by James Manor and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in recent years on aid effectiveness shows that significant obstacles in fragile states - insecurity, poor governance and weak implementation capacity - usually prevent aid from achieving the desired results in these environments. This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness of donor-supported programmes and projects that worked well under difficult conditions in fragile states. Presented in this study are nine development initiatives in six less developed countries - Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and Uganda. The cases show that development initiatives, which engage local communities and local level governments, are often able to have significant impact. However, for more substantial improvements to take places, localized gains need to be scaled up either horizontally (other localities) or vertically (to higher levels). Given the advantages of working at the local level and the difficulty of working through mainstream bureaucratic agencies at higher levels in these countries, donors often prefer to create 'parallel-agencies' to reach out to larger numbers of beneficiaries. However, this may in the long run weaken the legitimacy of mainstream government institutions, and donor agencies may therefore choose to work as closely as possible with government officials from the beginning to build trust and demonstrating that new initiatives are non-threatening and help prepare the eventual mainstreaming of 'parallel agencies'.
Author : Anke Hoeffler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789292673918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Aid and Fragile States written by Anke Hoeffler and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their development challenges. In this paper, we explore which fragile states receive most aid flows, which donors are particularly active in fragile states, and which type of projects are the focus of these aid flows to fragile states. Evidence so far suggests that the high number of donors and the volatility of ODA generate problems for recipients who are least able to deal with the issues of donor coordination and budget planning under uncertainty. Furthermore, despite different needs, aid spending patterns to fragile countries are not very different from the average recipient country, although extremely fragile countries benefit from aid targeted at humanitarian and peacebuilding needs. We suggest that aid in fragile states could be best allocated to address the specific needs of these countries, especially countries in the 'fragile' category that may be at risk of falling into the 'extremely fragile' category. Using specific aid flows to prevent such shifts could be a useful strategy for donors engaged in those countries.
Author : Sebastian Groh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640557492
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Effectiveness of Development Aid in Fragile States written by Sebastian Groh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Göttingen, course: Fragile States: Determinanten, Auswirkungen und mögliche Wege aus der Krise, language: English, abstract: What should we learn from our history of development aid? Development aid faces fundamental problems, especially in fragile states. These problems were addressed regularly by various representatives, academics, politicians and practitioners. The Samaritan Dilemma and a case study on used clothing is presented. It is clear that only having good intentions is not enough to help out the poor. The econometric analysis on aid effectiveness has repeatedly offered hope and repeatedly disappointed. There are several reasons why the aid flow increases anyway. Chauvet and Collier (2004) use a different approach and show potential for efficiency enhancements, but their analysis suffers from several caveats. Nevertheless, potential is shown and the authors indicate how to address the problem. Furthermore, the idea of social businesses is introduced as a market based mechanism which allows for feedback and accountability. Recent initiatives, primarily pushed by private actors, give reason for hope. It is on the governments to provide the basic conditions in the fragile states and to back those initiatives which so far show the best results.
Author : James K. Boyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Financing Peace written by James K. Boyce and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies weaknesses in current financing arrangements for postconflict countries and fragile states, with a focus on official development assistance (ODA). Tensions persist between business-as-usual development policies and policies responsive to the demands of peacebuilding. The preferential allocation of aid to 'good performers,' in the name of maximizing its payoff in terms of economic growth, militates against aid to fragile and conflict-affected states. If the aim of aid is redefined to include durable peace, the conventional performance criteria for aid allocation lose much of their force. Yet the difficulties that initially prompted donors to become more selective in aid allocation remain all too real. The donor move to selectivity came in response to evidence that in some contexts aid has perverse effects on economic performance. At present, neither donors nor recipients have anything close to an adequate idea of how aid monies are being spent, let alone the impacts of this spending on peacebuilding and statebuilding.
Author : Rumbidzai Mpahlo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (98 download)
Download or read book State Fragility, Aid Orphan Status and Donor Response: An Analysis of Guinea and Nepal written by Rumbidzai Mpahlo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel M Gisselquist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351630326
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Fragility, Aid, and State-building written by Rachel M Gisselquist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with generally mixed results. This volume explores how unpacking the concept of fragility and studying its dimensions and forms can help to build policy-relevant understandings of how states become more resilient and the role of aid therein. It highlights the particular challenges for donors in dealing with ‘chronically’ (as opposed to ‘temporarily’) fragile states and those with weak legitimacy, as well as how unpacking fragility can provide traction on how to take ‘local context’ into account. Three chapters present new analysis from innovative initiatives to study fragility and fragile state transitions in cross-national perspective. Four chapters offer new focused analysis of selected countries, drawing on comparative methods and spotlighting the role of aid versus historical, institutional and other factors. It has become a truism that one-size-fits-all policies do not work in development, whether in fragile or non-fragile states. This is should not be confused with a broader rejection of ‘off-the-rack’ policy models that can then be further adjusted in particular situations. Systematic thinking about varieties of fragility helps us to develop this range, drawing lessons – appropriately – from past experience. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly, and is available online as an Open Access monograph at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351630337.
Author : Stephen Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789291909711
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Aid to Fragile States written by Stephen Browne and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laurence Chandy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (967 download)
Download or read book Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States written by Laurence Chandy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragile states around the world are at risk of being left behind, making them a high priority for increased foreign assistance. But is the donor community capable of delivering that aid effectively? To explore this question, we develop a set of aid effectiveness indicators that are relevant to aid-giving in fragile states and that allow a fair comparison of aid practices in fragile and stable countries. We then make that comparison using different definitions of fragility. Under certain definitions, we show that aid practices in fragile states are inferior to those in stable countries. We then turn the spotlight onto individual donors, revealing substantial variety in their performance in fragile settings. The patterns we find among donors point to workable, though difficult, ways to raise the standard for aid in the countries that need effective aid the most. Chief among these is a call for the worst performing bilateral donors to withdraw themselves from fragile states and support a larger role for multilateral agencies in their place.
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780195211238
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Assessing Aid written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.
Author : Matthew Kofi Ocran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789292673604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Politics, Policies, and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Fragile States written by Matthew Kofi Ocran and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International development cooperation has evolved since the 1960s. The effectiveness of aid is still topical, but studies have not paid adequate attention to the relationship between sectoral aid, politics, institutions, and aid effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this paper examines the effects of education aid and health aid on education outcomes and health outcomes in fragile states. It uses the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond system generalized method of moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion. There is evidence of muted effectiveness of health aid and education aid on health and education outcomes in the face of fragile contexts. There is ample evidence that policies and institutional factors matter for aid effectiveness. Donor support for social sectors in fragile states must be accompanied by support for institution-building and policy formulation processes.
Author : Rachel M. Gisselquist
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781483385914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Aid and Institution-Building in Fragile States: Findings from Comparative Cases written by Rachel M. Gisselquist and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to recent estimates, about 1.5 billion people are affected by the conflict and instability that characterize fragile states, defined as those that are unable to fulfill basic state functions. This volume of The ANNALS addresses the questions of why and how some states succeed in becoming more robust, and others do not. Paving new ground in theory development, the articles in this volume explore factors that contribute to institution-building in fragile states through comparative case studies. Such factors include the limits (and benefits) of domestic and foreign aid; the impact of a state’s historical strength; the impact of colonial and postcolonial interventions; and the political economy incentives for political leaders to sustain state fragility. Overall, the studies illustrate that aid has both positive and negative effects on institution-building in fragile states. Aid has the potential to contribute to state robustness through changing incentives and shaping institutional structures directly. However, aid can also weaken states, depending on a state’s domestic institutional legacy and political dynamics. The studies call for more research into theories of institution-building to further enhance those that have been discussed in this volume of The ANNALS.
Author : Thomas Risse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198797206
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood written by Thomas Risse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where state authorities lack the capacity to implement and enforce central decision and/or to uphold the monopoly over the means of violence. While areas of limited statehood can be found everywhere - not just in the global South -, they are neither ungoverned nor ungovernable. Rather, a variety of actors maintain public order and safety, as well as provide public goods and services. While external state 'governors' and their interventions in the global South have received special scholarly attention, various non-state actors - from NGOs to business to violent armed groups - have emerged that also engage in governance. This evidence holds for diverse policy fields and historical cases. The Handbook gives a comprehensive picture of the varieties of governance in areas of limited statehood from interdisciplinary perspectives including political science, geography, history, law, and economics. 29 chapters review the academic scholarship and explore the conditions of effective and legitimate governance in areas of limited statehood, as well as its implications for world politics in the twenty-first century. The authors examine theoretical and methodological approaches as well as historical and spatial dimensions of areas of limited statehood, and deal with the various governors as well as their modes of governance. They cover a variety of issue areas and explore the implications for the international legal order, for normative theory, and for policies toward areas of limited statehood.
