Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Overview; Background: Unemployment and Fragility; Prevailing Approaches to Employment Generation; New Thinking Regarding Employment Generation in Fragile Environments; Agriculture Value Chain Development: An Underexploited...

What is the relationship between employment and conflict in fragile states? Although this question cannot be definitively answered, a large body of research suggests that in countries emerging from conflict, peace is likelier to endure if growth can be rapidly restored and translated into...

The inability to unlock natural resource wealth for the benefit of developing countries’ local populations, a phenomenon popularly known as the ‘resource curse’ or the ‘paradox of plenty’, has spawned extensive debate among researchers and policy makers in recent years. There is now a...