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Beyond the Usual Suspects: Complexity of Fragility and Analytical Framework

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Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts

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Making development work in fragile states is one of the biggest challenges for [the] international community... Fragile states are the hardest countries in the world to help develop. Working with them is difficult and costly and carries significant risks. Aid programmes in fragile states pose difficult policy dilemmas. All too often, donors have made the calculation that it is less harmful to do nothing or to rely on humanitarian responses.

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Ware, A. (2014). Beyond the Usual Suspects: Complexity of Fragility and Analytical Framework. In: Ware, A. (eds) Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347633_1

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