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Are Multilateral Development Banks Working as a System in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations?

Koldo Echebarria
January 13, 2025
Fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS) present the most difficult development problem of our era. According to the last OECD States of Fragility report, the sixty countries characterized as FCS are home to 73 percent of those living in extreme poverty, and that number is expected to rise to ...
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Multilateral Development Banks in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Overview of Key Policy, Financial, and Operational Issues

Koldo Echebarria
December 10, 2024
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) face significant policy, financial, and operational challenges in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), with the World Bank playing a central role in financing these areas. MDBs have developed strategies to address FCS, but face difficulties in transla...
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What’s the State of Play in the Global Fragility Act Priority Countries?: A Snapshot of US Foreign Assistance and Conflict Trends

Michelle Sieff
April 05, 2024
As the Center for Global Development’s inaugural Evidence in Policy Fellow, I just finished an extended engagement to help increase data and evidence use in the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance. While at State, I spent much of my time leading and participating in the work of the inter...
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A Better Way for International Actors to Support Fragile States

Koldo Echebarria
March 04, 2024
Despite significant financial and political commitment, the international community's track record in state-building in fragile contexts has been poor. Only in the few instances of reform-minded governments with strong local leadership—like Rwanda—has lasting progress been accomplished. Most fragile...
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Lagos to Mombasa: How Does Climate Impact Conflict?

W. Gyude Moore
February 22, 2024
Is there a relationship between climate change and conflict? Gyude speaks to Dr. Edward (Ted) Miguel of University of California Berkley about the impact of rising temperatures, extreme droughts, and floods on competition for resources, and how governments can respond to climate change’s compounding...
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Do Half of the World’s Poor Really Live in Fragile States?

Lee Crawfurd
February 09, 2024
It is most likely true that by 2030 most of the world’s extreme poor (by current standards) will live in fragile states, and this will be accompanied by most of the world’s children who die young, usually of preventable causes. But it won’t be most of the world’s poor, according to more expansive de...
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Haiti’s Failed Quest for Stability and Development after the 2010 Earthquake: Why Did It Go Wrong?

Koldo Echebarria
November 08, 2023
Haiti is once more experiencing a crisis of instability and political unrest. The devastating 2010 earthquake was seen as a chance to break with the past and steer the nation in a new direction, but although some progress was made, it was short-lived, insufficient to establish a path for growth, une...
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Who Failed Haiti?

Nancy Lee
November 08, 2023
Koldo Echebarria’s fascinating paper explores the long and tragic story of Haiti’s struggle to achieve both political stability and economic prosperity. Despite mostly good intentions—at least in recent decades—and periodic surges in aid, one would have to conclude that the international community h...
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Aid to Afghanistan: An Insider’s Take on the Lessons to be Learnt

Andrew Rogerson
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Yaseen Zazai
March 07, 2023
Here, we look at five lessons which can be drawn from this experience for the UK and other donors for providing aid in fragile contexts, and argue that an alternative approach could have been more successful—and remains a viable option for re-engaging with Afghanistan in the future.
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CGD Podcast: Preparing for Nigeria’s Elections with Amaka Anku

W. Gyude Moore
February 22, 2023
When Nigerian voters head to the polls on Saturday to elect the country’s next president, all of Africa—and beyond—will be watching. CGD's Gyude Moore sits down with Amaka Anku, head of the Eurasia Group's Africa practice, to discuss the advantages and challenges of the leading candidates, the role ...
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