Ce document analyse la persistance de la fragilite dans certains pays d'Afrique subsaharienne et la coexistence de multiples dimensions de la faiblesse de l'Etat. L'etude passe egalement en revue les caracteristiques de la fragilite, et ses liens avec les conflits et l'action internationale en...

During the past three years the frontier markets of sub-Saharan Africa have received growing amounts of portfolio capital flows, with heightened interest from foreign investors. Compared with foreign direct investment, portfolio capital flows tend to be more volatile, and thus pose challenges...

The pace of progress toward achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in many sub-Saharan African countries remains too slow to reach targets by 2015, despite significant progress in the late 1990s. The MDG Africa Steering Group, convened in September 2007 by the UN Secretary-General,...