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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"state fragility"”.
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South Africa's Paradox: A Case Study of Latent State Fragility
<p>Do existing measures of state fragility measure fragility accurately? Based on commonly used fragility measures, South Africa (SA) is classified as a relatively stable state, yet rising violent crime, high unemployment, endemic poverty, eroding public trust, identity group based preferential …
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Toward Understanding the Nature of Leadership in Alleviating State Fragility
… sixty countries have been designated `Fragile States' by international development agencies. Home to two billion of the world's poorest people, these fragile states are characterized by violence, weak institutions and shattered economies. Not only do they pose a challenge to regional security, …
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Impact of state fragility on capital flows and economic growth in Nigeria
This thesis aims to investigate the impact of state fragility on capital inflows and economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1980-2015. In line with existing studies, it adopts an augmented neoclassical growth model where capital is divided into domestic and foreign capital inflows (FDI, ODA and …
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Impact of state fragility on capital flows and economic growth in Nigeria
This thesis aims to investigate the impact of state fragility on capital inflows and economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1980-2015. In line with existing studies, it adopts an augmented neoclassical growth model where capital is divided into domestic and foreign capital inflows (FDI, ODA and …
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State fragility and militia proliferation in Kenya a case study of policy inadequacy in the context of soft insecurity
… at service delivery in the context of failed states. The objective of this study is to investigate whether state failure in its provisioning capacity of basic services to its citizens has led to the proliferation of militia groups in Kenya. The study draws upon secondary sources of literature …
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The Institutional Contingencies of Business Innovation In Low-Income Markets: The Global Growth and Commercialization of Microfinance, 1998-2008
… countries, I introduce the concept of "state fragility." This measure has been found to capture variation in the effectiveness of international-aid programs across less-developed countries (Rice & Patrick, 2008). I suggest that differences in state fragility will influence what type of …
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New Venture Creation and Infrastructure in Developed and Developing World Countries
… (NME), and vice versa. Furthermore, state fragility was shown to mediate associations between some index attributes and OME, as well as NME. Keywords: infrastructure, new venture creation, developed and developing world, entrepreneurial transition, corruption perception, …
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The logic of violent conflicts in DR Congo : a nested-analysis approach to the understanding of civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa
… rule. The case-study analysis indicates that state fragility and politics of ethnicity (characterized by patterns of elite power struggles) are at the roots of Congo’s intractable civil wars. The reasons for the wars in Congo often changed from political to resource or ethnic during the war …
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Federating EU Development Cooperation? Europe’s Contributions to International Development Effectiveness
… challenges such as poverty, hunger and state fragility beyond its borders. While the EU member states and institutions seek coherent responses to these challenges, they also have partly competing agendas. Yet there has been increasing agreement on collective action. To understand this …
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Harsh and Philanthropic War: U.S. Success and Failure in Third Party Counterinsurgency
Before 1950, the United States intervened in large scale counterinsurgencies twice as often and intervened almost exactly as long as interventions after 1950. Yet, U.S. supported states developed before 1950 tended to survive an average thirty years after U.S. withdrawal. In contrast, U.S. …
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Blood money: A grounded theory of corporate citizenship; Myanmar (Burma) as a case in point
… action. Corporate engagement with fragile states, and other situations identified as contexts of conflict and/or weak governance, is the subject of scholarly and practitioner research by those with an interest in Corporate Citizenship. In this thesis I represent the corporation as a legal …