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Paradise Lost: The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific

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  • Lisa Chauvet
  • Paul Collier
  • Anke Hoeffler

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Globally, state failure is hugely costly. We estimate the total cost of failing states at around US$276 billion per year. In this paper we apply our global framework and methodology to analyse the cost of failing states in the Pacific Ocean. Globally, failing states inflict very large costs on their neighbours and this both justifies and requires regional intervention in decision processes that would normally be the sovereign domain of nation states. Our analysis suggests that islands do not have neighbours in this economic sense.

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  • Lisa Chauvet & Paul Collier & Anke Hoeffler, 2007. "Paradise Lost: The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2007-16, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:rp2007-16
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    1. Don J. Webber & Stephanié Rossouw, 2010. "Sub-national vulnerability measures:A spatial perspective," Working Papers 1004, Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol.
    2. Chuku Chuku & Onye Kenneth, 2019. "Working Paper 307 - The Macroeconomics of State Fragility in Africa," Working Paper Series 2433, African Development Bank.
    3. Stephanié Rossouw & Don J. Webber, 2012. "Sub-national vulnerability and relative location: A case study of South Africa," Working Papers 2012-01, Auckland University of Technology, Department of Economics.
    4. Lisa Chauvet & Paul Collier, 2008. "Aid and Reform in Failing States," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 22(1), pages 15-24, May.

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