Global Initiatives on Peace, Conflict, Security and Resilience

February 14, 2014

Taxes and fragile states – how political can it get?

Posted: 10:29 AM CEST

by Frauke de Weijer

in Conflict, security and resilience, Economic Governance, Global Initiatives on Peace, Conflict, Security and Resilience, Taxation and development finance

Taxes and fragile states – how political can it get?  The 2014 OECD report on Domestic Resource Mobilization in Fragile States is an interesting - and paradoxical - example of the current debate on statebuilding. Linking domestic resource mobilisation and fragile states is a very welcome approach, and the political thinking driving it is just what is needed in development debates. But by relying on assumptions about fragile states that are optimistic at the best of times, means this report falls short of expectation. Taxation was once considered a mainly technical issue – but effective ...

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November 28, 2013

Challenges 2014: Setting countries up to fail? Monitoring the implementation of the New Deal for Fragile States

Posted: 09:47 AM CEST

by Frauke de Weijer

in Conflict, security and resilience, Global Initiatives on Peace, Conflict, Security and Resilience

+++ ECDPM Challenges blog series. Post number seven +++ The New Deal has the potential to be a real game changer for engagement in fragile states, if the spirit of the New Deal is genuinely adhered to and ambitions are not set at unrealistic levels. At the end of 2013, the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States is making strides, with the recent launch of the Somali Compact, followed on its heels by South Sudan. Other countries, such as Sierra Leone, have already incorporated elements of the New Deal in their national development strategy.  ...

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