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Exiting the Fragility Trap

Author : David Carment
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082144686X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Exiting the Fragility Trap written by David Carment and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State fragility is a much-debated yet underinvestigated concept in the development and international security worlds. Based on years of research as part of the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project at Carleton University, Exiting the Fragility Trap marks a major step toward remedying the lack of research into the so-called fragility trap. In examining the nature and dynamics of state transitions in fragile contexts, with a special emphasis on states that are trapped in fragility, David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy ask three questions: Why do some states remain stuck in a fragility trap? What lessons can we learn from those states that have successfully transitioned from fragility to stability and resilience? And how can third-party interventions support fragile state transitions toward resilience? Carment and Samy consider fragility’s evolution in three state types: countries that are trapped, countries that move in and out of fragility, and countries that have exited fragility. Large-sample empirical analysis and six comparative case studies—Pakistan and Yemen (trapped countries), Mali and Laos (in-and-out countries), and Bangladesh and Mozambique (exited countries)—drive their investigation, which breaks ground toward a new understanding of why some countries fail to see sustained progress over time.

Avoid a Fall Or Fly Again: Turning Points of State Fragility

Author : Olusegun Ayodele Akanbi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513573683
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis Avoid a Fall Or Fly Again: Turning Points of State Fragility by : Olusegun Ayodele Akanbi

Download or read book Avoid a Fall Or Fly Again: Turning Points of State Fragility written by Olusegun Ayodele Akanbi and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High persistence of state fragility (a fragility trap) suggests the presence of substantial benefits from avoiding a fall into fragility and considerable hurdles to successful exit from fragility. This paper empirically examines the factors that affect the turning points of entering and exiting from state fragility by employing three different approaches: an event study, the synthetic control method, and a logit model. We find that avoiding economic contraction is critical to prevent a country on the brink of fragility from falling into fragility (e.g., among near fragile countries, the probability of entering fragility would rise by 40 percentage points should real GDP per capita growth decline from +2.5 percent to -2.5 percent). Also, strengthening government effectiveness together with increasing political inclusion and maintaining robust economic activity should help make exit from fragility more successful and sustainable. In the current environment (the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath), the findings suggest the importance of providing well-directed fiscal stimulus with sufficient financing, (subject to appropriate governance safeguards and well-designed policies), and protecting critical socio-economic spending to keep vulnerable countries away from being caught in a fragility trap.

Exiting From Fragility in sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Corinne Deléchat
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1513521810
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis Exiting From Fragility in sub-Saharan Africa by : Corinne Deléchat

Download or read book Exiting From Fragility in sub-Saharan Africa written by Corinne Deléchat and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the role of fiscal policies and institutions in building resilience in sub-Saharan African countries during 1990-2013, with specific emphasis on a group of twenty-six countries that were deemed fragile in the 1990s. As the drivers of fragility and resilience are closely intertwined, we use GMM estimation as well as a probabilistic framework to address endogeneity and reverse causality. We find that fiscal institutions and fiscal space, namely the capacity to raise tax revenue and contain current spending, as well as lower military spending and, to some extent, higher social expenditure, are significantly and fairly robustly associated with building resilience. Similar conclusions arise from a study of the progression of a group of seven out of the twenty-six sub- Saharan African countries that managed to build resilience after years of civil unrest and/or violent conflict. These findings suggest relatively high returns to focusing on building sound fiscal institutions in fragile states. The international community can help this process through policy advice, technical assistance, and training on tax administration and budget reforms.

Central African Republic

Author : International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1475523718
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Central African Republic written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2016 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic growth in the Central African Republic has remained anemic since 2013 owing to structural rigidities, poor infrastructure, and limited energy supply. Inflation reached 11.6 percent in 2014 and receded to 4.5 percent in 2015 thanks to improved supply conditions and a fall in the prices of basic imports. Corrective measures implemented in 2015 allowed revenue to reach 7.1 percent. IMF Executive Directors have commended the authorities for the progress achieved under their economic program supported by the Rapid Credit Facility, which has helped stabilize the economy, rebuild core administrative capacity, and improve the management of public resources.

Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence

Author : Timothy Donais
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000924254
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence by : Timothy Donais

Download or read book Sustainable Development Goal 16 and the Global Governance of Violence written by Timothy Donais and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way point of the Sustainable Development Goals implementation period, what impact Goal 16 has made, or may yet make, toward reducing violence in ‘all its forms.’ Adopted in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals include 17 objectives designed to shape and direct the global development agenda through to 2030, with Goal 16 aiming to promote ‘peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.’ Amidst an ongoing global pandemic, evidence of a fracturing liberal international order, and the persistence of seemingly intractable conflict in large parts of the world, this volume takes stock of current progress toward providing access to justice and ensuring inclusive and democratic institutions. Across 15 chapters, the book’s contributors explore the universal aspirations of Goal 16 and its specific implications for conflict-affected states, which continue to experience ‘development in reverse,’ and for historically marginalized groups such as women, youth, the disabled, and indigenous peoples. In doing so, it offers a comprehensive assessment of Goal 16’s broader contribution to the creation of a more just, peaceful world against the realities of societies emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and grappling with a deepening climate crisis. This volume will appeal to scholars, researchers, policymakers, and postgraduate students in sustainable development, global governance, international relations, global development, international law, and political science.

Fragility, Demographics, Gender Inequality

Author : Luc Tucker
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Fragility, Demographics, Gender Inequality written by Luc Tucker and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mali has many characteristics of a fragile and conflict-affected state. Like many other fragile states, Mali has high population growth, which puts pressure on the country’s resources, including food supplies. Gender inequality in the country is also high, with women and girls experiencing disadvantages in many aspects of life. These challenges are closely related, so coordinated reforms are required to break the vicious cycle which has left Mali trapped in a state of fragility since 2012.

Handbook of Governance in Small States

Author : Lino Briguglio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042959206X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Governance in Small States written by Lino Briguglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context. While different definitions of governance are given in the chapters, most authors associate governance with the setting and implementation of policies aimed at managing a country or territory, and with the related institutional structures and interventions by political actors. Generally, good governance is associated with concepts such as policy effectiveness, accountability, transparency, control of corruption, encouragement of citizens’ voice and gender equality—factors which are, in turn, linked with democracy. What emerges from the book is that the societies of small states are being re-shaped by various forces outside their control, including the globalization process and climate change, rendering their governance ever more complex. These problems are not solely faced by small states, but small country size tends to lead to a higher degree of exposure to external factors. The chapters are grouped into four sections broadly covering political, environmental, social and economic governance. Governance is influenced by many, often intertwined, factors; the division of the book into four parts therefore does not detract from the fact that governance is multifaceted, and such division was based on the primary focus of each particular study and its main disciplinary background. The expert authors have, moreover, used a variety of approaches in the studies, the subject of small states being well suited to scholarly work from different disciplines using qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches to arrive at useful conclusions.

Handbook of Fragile States

Author : David Carment
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800883471
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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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.

Mali

Author : International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Mali written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mali: Selected Issues

Fragility, Aid, and State-building

Author : Rachel M Gisselquist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351630326
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Fragility, Aid, and State-building by : Rachel M Gisselquist

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 144 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.

States of Fragility 2018

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264302077
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book States of Fragility 2018 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years into the 2030 Agenda it is already apparent that those living in fragile contexts are the furthest behind. Not all forms of fragility make it to the public’s eye: fragility is an intricate beast, sometimes exposed, often lurking underneath, but always holding progress back. Conflict ...

International Security in a World of Fragile States

Author : S. Yaqub Ibrahimi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047290289X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Book Synopsis International Security in a World of Fragile States by : S. Yaqub Ibrahimi

Download or read book International Security in a World of Fragile States written by S. Yaqub Ibrahimi and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, there has been an increasing interest among scholars, students, and the interested public to study and learn about the Islamist-oriented terrorist organizations called Jihadi Salafi Groups (JSGs). Considering that these organizations emerged in highly fragile states, S. Yaqub Ibrahimi asks: how and why is state fragility linked to the emergence of JSGs? Ibrahimi bases his study on three events: the establishment of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1998, the rise of Islamic State in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and the failed al-Qaeda effort to establish a base in Saudi Arabia in 2003. These case studies contain major aspects and features of the rise of JSGs and, together, explain the contribution of state fragility to the process of the formation and expansion of these terrorist organizations. International Security in a World of Fragile States stands out as a pivotal work on the interconnection between the root causes of JSGs and state fragility conditions and their amalgamated role in the formation and evolution of these organizations. It contributes to IR and international security debates by developing a comprehensive but readily understandable narrative of the rise of JSGs in Islamic countries, and examining them in an analytical framework in which their root causes are categorized on individual, group, and international levels.

The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation

Author : Oliver P. Richmond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190904410
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation written by Oliver P. Richmond and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies, practices, examples, and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections, the Handbook offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities"--

Africa's Pulse, No. 19, April 2019

Author : Cesar Calderon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 146481421X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa's Pulse, No. 19, April 2019 by : Cesar Calderon

Download or read book Africa's Pulse, No. 19, April 2019 written by Cesar Calderon and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to have decelerated from 2.5 percent in 2017 to 2.3 percent in 2018, below the rate of growth of population for a fourth consecutive year. Regional growth in 2018 is below the pace projected in 2018 October issue of Africa's Pulse {0.4 percentage points lower). This slowdown was more pronounced in the first half of 2018 and it reflected weaker exports among the region's large oil exporters (Nigeria and Angola) due to dwindling oil production amid higher but volatile international prices for crude petroleum. A deeper contraction in Sudanese economic activity and a broad-based growth slowdown among non-resource-intensive countries also played a role. Sub-Saharan African countries with fragile context have made considerable efforts to find a way out of fragility. Regional and sub-regional economic organizations are promoting economic cooperation and addressing security and peace challenges that go beyond national borders. The special topic of this issue of Africa's Pulse argues that the digital economy can unlock new pathways for inclusive growth, innovation, job creation, service delivery and poverty reduction in Africa. The continent has made. great strides in mobile connectivity; however, it still lags the rest of the world in access to broadband. Only 27 percent of the population in the continent have access to internet, few citizens have digital IDs, businesses are slowly adopting digital technologies and only few governments are investing strategically in developing digital infrastructure, services, skills, and entrepreneurship.

Handbook on Governance and Development

Author : Wil Hout
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789908752
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Governance and Development written by Wil Hout and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides readers with an expert overview of the key theoretical approaches to governance and development, covering a broad range of policy areas and domains. Utilising a critical approach to issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, the contributions in this Handbook review different social contexts and policy areas, governance arrangements, and processes relating to issues of development.

Foreign Policy Issues for America

Author : Richard W. Mansbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135118685X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Policy Issues for America written by Richard W. Mansbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America’s first president never to have served in government or the military, Donald Trump entered the White House with an unformed foreign policy position. Yet he was confronted by a wide range of developing issues; the rise of China, Russian-United States relations, the resurgence of nationalism in Europe, U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America, environmental challenges, terrorism, security challenges of failing states, cyber security threats, and challenges in international political economy. This volume focuses on these sensitive foreign policy issues that determine the prospects for American decline or continued hegemony. Contributions are divided into ‘regional’ and ‘functional’ issues, exploring the nature and significance of the challenge, the previous response, and President Trump’s policies and their consequences. Topics have been selected to address political, military, economic, and social factors in global politics and the book will appeal to undergraduates and scholars of U.S. foreign policy at all levels.

Development Co-operation Report 2023 Debating the Aid System

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264944842
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Development Co-operation Report 2023 Debating the Aid System written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last three years, multiple global crises and the growing urgency of containing climate change have put current models of development co-operation to, perhaps, their most radical test in decades. The goal of a better world for all seems harder to reach, with new budgetary pressures, demands to provide regional and global public goods, elevated humanitarian needs, and increasingly complex political settings.