In this paper, we estimate the costs of state failure, both for the failing state itself and for its neighbours. In our analysis, the cost of failure arises from two distinct sources: organized violence due to the incapacity of the state to ensure its own citizens’ security and low quality of...

In his book Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World, Prof. Collier continues economic research on the poorest nations in the contemporary world. The author focuses on consequences of immigration flows from poor developing countries to rich developed ones. To study migration, Collier raises...

In this paper, we estimate the costs of state failure, both for the failing state itself and for its neighbours. In our analysis, the cost of failure arises from two distinct sources: organized violence due to the incapacity of the state to ensure its own citizens' security and low quality of...