This paper investigates whether the current effectiveness agenda-agreed during the 2011 Busan High Level Forum on Development Effectiveness-continues to define best practice in development amidst a rapidly changing development landscape. To do so, we surveyed officials from development agencies...

Ian Bremmer published a treatise on the stability of states built on the notion that states fall along a curve resembling a slanted "J" when plotting their stability against openness. States in the turnover process are considered unstable, and are at risk of either reversing to a closed and...