Overcoming fragility in Africa : Forging a new European Approach

The 2009 European Report on Development analyses the costs and characteristics of fragility (Section 1), the capacity of fragile countries to cope with negative shocks such as the 2008-09 financial crisis (Section 2), and the EU’s current engagement with fragile countries as well as the potential for EU development policy to assist national stakeholders in enhancing resilience (Section 3). The focus is on Sub-Saharan Africa because this region appears to be particularly lagging behind in the sphere of state consolidation; a stylised fact survives all the theoretical disputes around the definition and measurement of fragility – Sub-Saharan African countries always account for most of the group of fragile states...

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Alternative title:	European Report on Development 2009
Year of publication:	2009
Other Persons:	Giovannetti, Giorgia (contributor)
Institutions:	European University Institute ; Europäische Kommission (contributor)
Subject:	Entwicklungshilfepolitik \| development aid policy \| EU \| Schwarzafrika \| Black Africa \| südliches Afrika \| Southern Africa \| 2009

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OVERVIEW
1. Towards better EU responses to fragility
2. Setting priorities
SECTION ONE<brt>CHAPTER 1 STATE FRAGILITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: COSTS AND CHALLENGES
1. European development policies in a changing global context
2. What does state fragility refer to?
3. The costs of state fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
CHAPTER 2 CHARACTERISTICS OF FRAGILE STATES
1. Fragile states share some common features
2. Fragile countries present many elements of heterogeneity
3. In summary
CHAPTER 3 THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF STATE FRAGILITY
1. Specific drivers and common underlying factors
2. Is fragility a colonial legacy?
3. Colonial states in Sub-Saharan Africa
4. Decolonisation
5. International context and continuity
6. The path-dependence of institutions – detachment and extraversion
7. Conclusions
CHAPTER 4 ECONOMIC FACTORS CAN MAGNIFY FRAGILITY
1. Economic factors matter for state fragility – and fragility matters for the economy
2. Trade openness can increase or decrease state fragility
3. Two way links between foreign direct investment and fragility
4. Natural resource endowments can make governance worse
5. Governance affects the relationship between land and fragility
6. Hungry populations and fragile institutions 7. Conclusion

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