Journal Special Issue
Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing States

In recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'. These states, which according to current donor lists currently numbers more than 40 countries, are diverse in many respects. But, compared with other aid-receiving countries, all are thought to use aid poorly and to have lower capacities to absorb aid efficiently due to having especially bad policies, especially weak institutions or both. In addition they are all especially income poor, each belonging to the low-income country group. Alongside this rather recent concern is a more longstanding one for Small Island and Landlocked (SIL) countries . These countries can also be considered fragile, not necessarily in the way in which donors use that term, but in the sense that they are vulnerable to external shocks. The proposed project looks at aid and related governance issues in the first group of countries and a range of development challenges faced by SILs in the South Pacific and the Caribbean.

Table of contents
  1. Vulnerability, Trade, Financial Flows and State Failure in Small Island Developing States
    Mark McGillivray, Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
  2. Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries
    Patrick Guillaumont
    More Working Paper | Assessing the Economic Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries
  3. Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account in Small Island States
    Amelia U. Santos-Paulino
    More Working Paper | Terms of Trade Shocks and the Current Account in Small Island States
  4. The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to Small States: An Agnostic Time Series Analysis
    Henrik Hansen, Derek Headey
    More Working Paper | The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to Small States
  5. Aid and Growth in Small Island Developing States
    Simon Feeny, Mark McGillivray
    More Working Paper | Aid and Growth in Fragile States
  6. Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific and in Other Small Island States
    David Fielding
    More Working Paper | Aid and Dutch Disease in the South Pacific
  7. Remittances in Small Island Developing States
    Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo, Carlos Vargas-Silva
    More Working Paper | Remittances and the Macroeconomy
  8. Paradise Lost: The Costs of State Failure in the Pacific
    Lisa Chauvet, Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler
    More Working Paper | Paradise Lost
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