‘Fragile States’ is the term used for countries facing serious development challenges such as weak institutional capacity, poor governance, political instability and frequently on-going violence or the legacy effects of past conflict. Fragile states contain 14% of the world’s population but account for nearly 30% of people living on less than $1 a day. One person in three is undernourished. This is twice as high as in other poor countries. Fragile states cannot or will not deliver what citizens need to live decent, secure lives. They cannot or will not tackle poverty. As such, they significantly reduce the likelihood of the world meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Fragile states are the hardest countries in the world to help develop. Working with them is difficult and costly and carries significant risks. Aid programmes in fragile states pose difficult policy dilemmas. Since the mid-1990s, a stronger donor emphasis on rewarding countries with relatively effective governments and stable macroeconomic policies has led to further neglect of fragile states. Even taking account of their poor performance, fragile states have received 43% less aid than what would have been appropriate, given the extent of poverty within them. Against this context, this book attempts to explain the basic concept of fragile states, diverse perspectives and approaches towards them and the main factors which cause fragility. The book is divided into two sections. The first section discusses major theoretical and conceptual issues related to fragile states. Section two presents country experiences of Liberia, Sudan, Cambodia, Haiti Somalia etc.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sudha V. Menon
Sudha Menon holds an MA and a Ph.D in Political Science from University of Kerala. She was awarded gold medal for her performance during her master's degree. She has around seven years of experience in academics and research. She is currently working as Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Ahmedabad. She has also recently completed an International Research Project on ‘Political Economy of Agrarian Distress' in Kerala, funded by International Food Policy Research Institute. She has presented research papers in various national and international seminars and has published articles in various journals, edited volumes and newspapers. Her areas of interest include development studies, public policy analysis, political economy and natural resource management.
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