Fragile States

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Fuel Subsidy Reform in Fragile States: Forging A Constructive IFI-UN Partnership
March 18, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, fragile states around the world struggled to manage complex and interacting risks. Facing macroeconomic stressors on top of a fragile peace, many countries found themselves balancing precariously between tipping points, knowing that interventions that might ease ec...
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On Fragility, Tipping Points, and International Coordination
October 22, 2020
Drawing on work done jointly with CGD, New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) just released a paper by Marc Jacquand that makes the case for better IFI-UN coordination in fragile states to better identify macroeconomic and political vulnerabilities, anticipate the tipping po...
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What the Global Fragility Act Can Learn from the Millennium Challenge Corporation
September 10, 2020
MCC’s experience offers useful lessons for the State Department and other GFA implementing agencies.
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Coordinating Country Aid: Bella Bird, Sharmarke Farah, and Jonathan Papoulidis on the CGD Podcast
March 26, 2020
Bella Bird of the World Bank, Sharmarke Farah of the government of Somalia, and Jonathan Papoulidis of World Vision join me to discuss the potential of country platforms for aid coordination—specifically the history and progress of Somalia's platform, the importance of country ownersh...
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Creating an Accountability Framework that Serves the Global Fragility Act’s Mission
January 10, 2020
In the final days of 2019, Congress passed the Global Fragility Act, an ambitious bill that aims to improve how the US government approaches stabilizing conflict-affected states and preventing the escalation of violence in other fragile contexts. Here are some ideas to keep it accountable.
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The Role of the World Bank in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
December 05, 2019
Meaningful progress on the goal of reducing global extreme poverty requires meeting the development needs of vulnerable populations in fragile contexts; but assistance in these contexts has traditionally been limited to short-term humanitarian aid, ill-equipped to address underlying development chal...
SPEECHES
Center for Global Development Keynote Address
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
November 08, 2019
This is the text of a speech given by president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at an event hosted at the Center for Global Development on November 4, 2019.