As we witness profound changes in the global economy, and as it becomes apparent that the so-called “Revived Bretton Woods System” may be nothing more than a temporary non sustainable financing of the US structural internal imbalance, favored by the global role of the dollar, which has...

The paper suggests a framework for evaluating the relevance of strategies of private sector development in fostering sustained economic turnaround in fragile and post-conflict situations. It highlights how fragility, violence and conflict change economic structures, introducing distortions,...

This note is an attempt to suggest a few key elements for a conceptual model of fragility as a dynamic process, that could help conceptualize and operationalize fragility in a way that is useful to policymakers and practitioners when designing development strategies, and allocating funds....