When are developing countries able to initiate periods of rapid growth and why have so few been able to sustain growth over decades? This book provides a novel

This book investigates the emergence, the dissemination and the reception of the notion of ‘state fragility’. It analyses the process of conceptualisation,

Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states. Macroeconomic Policy in Fragile States addresses the many issues involved and considers

"... Explores the connections between fragile statehood and violent conflict, and analyses the limitations of outside intervention from international society."-

Conventional wisdom among policymakers in both the US and Europe holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats