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Fixing Failed States: an unconventional agenda based on lessons learned from the afghan fiasco

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  • Serge MICHAILOF

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For more than forty years, developing countries have experienced a series of wars and armed conflicts. These have essentially been internal conflicts like in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Colombia, although they have had a strong tendency to involve neighboring countries.Many of these conflicts have affected countries without significantly upsetting the ability of the government to continue functioning. This is currently the case for example in the Ivory Coast, even though, paradoxically, this country’s public administration cannot measure up to what it was thirty years ago. In these cases, reconstruction is essentially an issue of political stabilization and ‘good’ policies facilitating private investment recovery. In these situations, the Official Development Assistance (ODA) plays its traditional role: its goal is to enable these countries — some of which, like the Ivory Coast, have lost several decades in terms of development — to make up for lost time.

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  • Serge MICHAILOF, 2010. "Fixing Failed States: an unconventional agenda based on lessons learned from the afghan fiasco," Working Papers P10, FERDI.
  • Handle: RePEc:fdi:wpaper:686
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    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • F52 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - National Security; Economic Nationalism
    • F42 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - International Policy Coordination and Transmission
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
    • P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies

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