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Effective development in fragile contexts has emerged as a key priority of international development actors over the last decade or so. This has been driven by a number of factors, including the belief that underdevelopment and security are interrelated, and concerns over the relationship between governance and development. This prioritisation is underscored by an increasing concentration of the world’ s absolute poor in such difficult sociopolitical contexts due to progress in more stable states, resulting in up to one-and-a-half billion people now living in fragile contexts (depending on definitions), with two-thirds of the world’ s remaining low-income countries being classified as ‘fragile’.
If states are fragile, the peoples of the world will not enjoy the security, development, and justice that are their right. (Kofi Annan 2005 in Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All, Report of the Secretary-General to the United Nations General Assembly)
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Ware, A. (2014). Critiques and Alternatives: Development in Contexts of Fragility. In: Ware, A. (eds) Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347633_14
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