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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).
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    1. Lisa Chauvet & Paul Collier, 2008. "What are the Preconditions for Turnarounds in Failing States?," Conflict Management and Peace Science, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 25(4), pages 332-348, September.
    2. Lisa Chauvet & Paul Collier & Anke Hoeffler, 2007. "The Cost of Failing States and the Limits to Sovereignty," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2007-30, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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