The Fragile Definition of State Fragility

Graziella Bertocchi () and Andrea Guerzoni ()

Department of Economics from University of Modena and Reggio E., Faculty of Economics "Marco Biagi"

Abstract: We investigates the link between fragility and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa over a yearly panel including 28 countries for the 1999-2004 period. Beside the conventional definition of fragility adopted by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, we introduce the more severe definition of extreme fragility. We show that only the latter exerts a significantly negative impact on economic development, once standard economic, demographic, and institutional regressors are accounted for. As a by-product of this investigation we produce up-to-date evidence on the growth performance of the area. We find a tendency to convergence and no influence of geographic and historical factors.

Keywords: State fragility; growth; Africa; aid. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H11 N17 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 20
Date: 2010-03
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Journal Article: The Fragile Defi nition of State Fragility (2011)
Working Paper: The Fragile Definition of State Fragility (2010)
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