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

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: FERDI Working Paper ; No. P10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Foreign Aid ; National Security; Economic Nationalism ; International Policy Coordination and Transmission ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law ; Other Economic Systems: Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Michailof, Serge
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI)
• (where): Clermont-Ferrand
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/269290
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET