Fragility, aid, and state-building / / edited by Rachel M. Gisselquist.

"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...

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Superior document:ThirdWorlds
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Place / Publishing House:London : : Routledge,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Third world quarterly (Series)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 144 pages) :; charts, tables; digital file(s).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Varieties of fragility: implications for aid / Rachel M. Gisselquist
  • chapter 1. Disaggregating state fragility: a method to establish a multidimensional empirical typology / Jorn Gravingholt
  • chapter 2. Conceptualising state collapse: an institutionalist approach / Daniel Lambach
  • chapter 3. Towards a theory of fragile state transitions: evidence from Yemen, Bangladesh and Laos / Laos David Carment
  • chapter 4. Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea / Jiyoung Kim
  • chapter 5. Aid and policy preferences in oil-rich countries: comparing Indonesia and Nigeria / Nigeria Ahmad Helmy Fuady
  • chapter 6. Development assistance and the lasting legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda / Devon E.A. Curtis
  • chapter 7. Aid, accountability and institution building in Ethiopia: the self-limiting nature of technocratic aid / Berhanu Abegaz.