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 …

delimiting the concept of fragility and at specifying his components. As well as there is no theoretical approach to define these … concept of fragility seems to have obvious filiations with the concepts of periphery, marginal and disadvantaged space, we … fragility is not a state but indeed a process, the question is then, in on one hand, to specify-it through its multiple …

The Kodila-Tedika & Bolito-Losembe (2014, ADR) finding on no evidence of causality flowing from State fragility to …

We build on existing literature and contemporary challenges to African development to assess the role of political …

We propose a model of asset encumbrance by banks subject to rollover risk and study the consequences for fragility … investment funded by cheap long-term secured debt against the cost of greater fragility due to unsecured debt runs. We derive … induce excessive encumbrance and exacerbate fragility. We show how regulations such as explicit limits on encumbrance ratios …

analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …

The main background and rationale of this research paper is that while donors' scaled-up engagements in Fragility and … Conflict-affected States (FCS) during the last decades were a resounding success in terms of official development resources … devoted to FCS, the value for money compared to the ultimate goal of helping these countries move out of fragility was well …