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Fragile States
Causes, Costs, and Responses
Edited by Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, and Mark McGillivray
232 pages
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20 Figures, 33 Tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-969315-3
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Hardback
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25 August 2011
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- Highlights the causes and costs of fragile states and considers what should be done to promote stability
- Contributions from eminent development economists who explain the criteria and classification of fragile states
- Focus on conflict, a major cause of state fragility, and the global impact of fragile states
- Clear structure, the volume is organized into three distinct parts: causes, costs, and responses
Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century. Many fragile states have turned into failed states, where millions of people are caught in deprivation and seemingly hopeless conditions. Fragile states lack the authority, legitimacy, and capacity that a modern state needs to advance the development of its peoples, and present deep challenges for the design and implementation of development policy. For instance, how is aid to be designed and delivered in a way that will help people in fragile states if their governments lack capacity to absorb and use aid?
And what can be done about adverse side-effects of fragile states on their neighbours and the global community, such as heightened insecurity, rising out-migration, displaced populations, and the destruction of natural resources? This book documents the far reaching global repercussions of state fragility and provides a timely contribution to the international discourse on three dimensions of fragile states: their causes, costs, and the responses required. It will appeal to scholars, policymakers, and donors who are concerned about conflict and development. Its aim is to contribute to our understanding of how strong and accountable states can be fostered-states where government and civil society progressively advance human wellbeing, underpin households' resilience in the face of shocks,
and form effective partnerships to maximize the benefits of development assistance.Readership: Professionals and policymakers engaged in policy reforms in foreign aid, and aid practitioners worldwide. Academics, researchers and students of development economics and international relations. Development organisations, Regional Development Banks, NGOs, and Donor governments.
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Edited by Wim Naudé, Maastricht School of Management, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Economist, Division for Africa, Least Developed Countries and Special Programmes, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and Mark McGillivray, Research Professor, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University Wim Naudé is a graduate from the University of Warwick. His research focuses on entrepreneurship spatial economics and the challenges of small island developing countries and fragile states. He has been member of a number of international networks and advisory bodies including the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the Club de Madrid, and
the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN). He has served on the Faculty of Brown University's International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) on technology entrepreneurship, and on UNU-EHS' Expert Working Group on Measuring Vulnerability. Previously, he has been a lecturer and research officer at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has published widely and has contributed to the World Development Report 2009 and the European Report on Development 2009. He is associate editor of Small Business Economics Journal.
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino has been a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER and at the University of Sussex's Institute of Development Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on trade, macroeconomics, and development, and her work has been published in academic journals including the Economic Journal, Manchester School, Cambridge Journal of Economics, and World Development. At UNU-WIDER, she directed the projects on Fragility and Development, Southern Engines of Global Growth, and South-South Co-operation. She has served as a research economist in the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, and as a trade policy advisor to the Government of the Dominican Republic, and has been a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Bank. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Kent in the UK.
Mark McGillivray's previous positions include Chief Economist of the Australian Agency for International Development and Deputy Director of the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. Professor McGillivray is also an Inaugural Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association, an honorary Professor of Development Economics at the University of Glasgow, a Research Associate of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford, and an External Fellow of the Centre for Economic Development and International Trade at the University of Nottingham. His main research interests are the allocation and effectiveness of foreign aid and measuring achieved human wellbeing. Mark is the recipient of a La Trobe
University Distinguished Alumni Award. He is a contributor to the European Report on Development 2009 on Overcoming Fragility in Africa.
Contributors:
Sebnem Akkaya, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, University of North Florida, USA
Sumon Kumar, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
David Carment, Carleton University, Canada
Lisa Chauvet, IRD, Paris, France
Paul Collier, University of Oxford, UK
Ghassan Dibeh, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon
Norbert Fiess, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Ira N. Gang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA
Sanjeev Gupta, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, USA
Anke Hoeffler, University of
Oxford, UK
Bartlomiej Kaminski, University of Maryland, College Park and The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
Mark McGillivray, Deakin University, Australia
S. Mansoob Murshed, The Hague, The Netherlands and University of Birmingham, UK
Wim Naudé, UNU-WIDER, Helsinki, Finland
Gaël Raballand, The World Bank, Lusaka, Zambia
Yiagadeesen Samy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland
Stewart Prest, University of British Columbia, Canada
Myeong-Su Yun Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Philip Verwimp, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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1: Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Mark McGillivray: Fragile States: An Overview
Part I. Causes
2: Mina Baliamoune-Lutz and Mark McGillivray: State Fragility: Concept and Measurement
3: David Carment, Stewart Prest, and Yiagadeesen Samy: The Causes and Measurement of State Fragility
4: Ghassan Dibeh: Resources, Conflict, and State Fragility: Iraq and Somalia
Part II. Costs
5: Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier, and Anke Hoeffler: The Cost of Failing States and the Limits to Sovereignty
6: Sebnem Akkaya, Norbert Fiess, Bartlomiej Kaminski, and Gaël Raballand: Fragility and Conflict in Palestine: The Costs of the Closures Regime on West Bank and Gaza
7: Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun: Gender and Ethnicity in Fragile States: The Case of Post-Conflict Kosovo
Part III. Responses
8: S. Mansoob Murshed and Philip Verwimp: Enforcing Peace Agreements in Fragile States through Commitment Technologies
9: Mark McGillivray: Aid Allocation and Fragile States
10: Sanjeev Gupta: Enhancing Effective Utilization of Aid in Fragile States
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