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June 14, 2006
To improve policy coherence and effectiveness, individual donor governments have begun restructuring the way they coordinate policy planning and conduct operations in fragile countries. In effect, they are bringing together their defense, diplomacy, development, aid, trade and intelligence communiti...
June 14, 2006
The Center has a signature program on aid effectiveness that has to date focused on relatively good performers and conventional development circumstances. The Fragile States Program will extend this work to address what might be called the flip side of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Account - those p...
June 14, 2006
A key motivation behind recent donor attention and financial resources devoted to developing countries is the presumed connection between weak and failing states, on the one hand, and a variety of transnational threats, on the other. Indeed, it has become conventional wisdom to profess that poorly p...
June 14, 2006
It is an historical fact that, on average, resource-rich developing countries, and especially those with oil, perform more poorly than less-endowed countries when it comes to achieving sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Much analysis has been done on the so-called 'resource curse', yet the is...
June 14, 2006
As the world scales up its development assistance, corruption has again taken center stage in the debate on aid effectiveness. The scale and complexity of problems related to corruption and poor governance can at times seem insurmountable. And, while commitment to the issues is strong, there is litt...