Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty

Fragility and conflict pose a critical threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent. But in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS...

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Main Authors:	Corral, Paul, Irwin, Alexander, Krishnan, Nandini, Mahler, Daniel Gerszon, Vishwanath, Tara
Format:	Publications & Research
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2020
Subjects:	FRAGILE STATES CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES EXTREME POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DISPLACED PERSONS FORCIBLY DISPLACED POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375651583211667808/Fragility-and-Conflict-On-the-Front-Lines-of-the-Fight-against-Poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33324

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spelling	okr-10986-333242021-05-25T09:32:18Z Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty Corral, Paul Irwin, Alexander Krishnan, Nandini Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Vishwanath, Tara FRAGILE STATES CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES EXTREME POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DISPLACED PERSONS FORCIBLY DISPLACED POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY LABOR MARKET Fragility and conflict pose a critical threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent. But in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), poverty is stagnating or getting worse. The number of people living in proximity to conflict has nearly doubled worldwide since 2007. In the Middle East and North Africa, one in five people now lives in such conditions. The number of forcibly displaced persons worldwide has also more than doubled in the same period, exceeding 70 million in 2017. If current trends continue, by the end of 2020, the number of extremely poor people living in economies affected by fragility and conflict will exceed the number of poor people in all other settings combined. This book shows why addressing fragility and conflict is vital for poverty goals and charts directions for action. It presents new estimates of welfare in FCS, filling gaps in previous knowledge, and analyzes the multidimensional nature of poverty in these settings. It shows that data deprivation in FCS has prevented an accurate global picture of fragility, poverty, and their interactions, and it explains how innovative new measurement strategies are tackling these challenges. The book discusses the long-term consequences of conflict and introduces a data-driven classification of countries by fragility profile, showing opportunities for tailored policy interventions and the need for monitoring multiple markers of fragility. The book strengthens understanding of what poverty reduction in FCS will require and what it can achieve. 2020-02-13T17:11:42Z 2020-02-13T17:11:42Z 2020-02-27 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375651583211667808/Fragility-and-Conflict-On-the-Front-Lines-of-the-Fight-against-Poverty 978-1-4648-1540-9 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33324 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication
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topic	FRAGILE STATES CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES EXTREME POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DISPLACED PERSONS FORCIBLY DISPLACED POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY LABOR MARKET
spellingShingle	FRAGILE STATES CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES EXTREME POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DISPLACED PERSONS FORCIBLY DISPLACED POVERTY HUMAN CAPITAL INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY LABOR MARKET Corral, Paul Irwin, Alexander Krishnan, Nandini Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Vishwanath, Tara Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty
description	Fragility and conflict pose a critical threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent. But in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), poverty is stagnating or getting worse. The number of people living in proximity to conflict has nearly doubled worldwide since 2007. In the Middle East and North Africa, one in five people now lives in such conditions. The number of forcibly displaced persons worldwide has also more than doubled in the same period, exceeding 70 million in 2017. If current trends continue, by the end of 2020, the number of extremely poor people living in economies affected by fragility and conflict will exceed the number of poor people in all other settings combined. This book shows why addressing fragility and conflict is vital for poverty goals and charts directions for action. It presents new estimates of welfare in FCS, filling gaps in previous knowledge, and analyzes the multidimensional nature of poverty in these settings. It shows that data deprivation in FCS has prevented an accurate global picture of fragility, poverty, and their interactions, and it explains how innovative new measurement strategies are tackling these challenges. The book discusses the long-term consequences of conflict and introduces a data-driven classification of countries by fragility profile, showing opportunities for tailored policy interventions and the need for monitoring multiple markers of fragility. The book strengthens understanding of what poverty reduction in FCS will require and what it can achieve.
format	Publications & Research
author	Corral, Paul Irwin, Alexander Krishnan, Nandini Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Vishwanath, Tara
author_facet	Corral, Paul Irwin, Alexander Krishnan, Nandini Mahler, Daniel Gerszon Vishwanath, Tara
author_sort	Corral, Paul
title	Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty
title_short	Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty
title_full	Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty
title_fullStr	Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty
title_full_unstemmed	Fragility and Conflict : On the Front Lines of the Fight against Poverty
title_sort	fragility and conflict : on the front lines of the fight against poverty
publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/375651583211667808/Fragility-and-Conflict-On-the-Front-Lines-of-the-Fight-against-Poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33324
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