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22 April 2026

A scholar who lives his ideas: my experience with Paul Collier

by Nematullah Bizhan

a close up of a gun on a statue

30 March 2026

Cash for guns in PNG: smart reform or short-term fix?

by Jack Assa

11 June 2025

Realists, re-imaginers and reformers: aid in the post-America multiverse

by Cameron Hill

26 February 2025

A terrifying escalation in Goma

by Will Devine

5 February 2024

Collier on case studies in state fragility

by Paul Collier

Children in a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Afghanistan (Eric Kanalstein-UN-Flickr)

29 September 2022

State fragility: case studies and comparisons

by Nematullah Bizhan

Man in Goroka PNG

23 June 2021

A response to ‘failed state’ narratives of PNG

by Kylie McKenna, Senala Morona and Cooniebhert Samgay

Is PNG a fragile state?

16 February 2021

Is PNG a fragile state?

by Nematullah Bizhan and Emmanuel Gorea

2 December 2020

DP88 A weak state and strong microsocieties in Papua New Guinea

by Nematullah Bizhan and Emmanuel Gorea

Daily Life in Herat, Afghanistan (Credit: United Nations Photo/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

19 May 2020

Fragile states need support to fight COVID-19

by Nematullah Bizhan

Credit: IPA

23 April 2019

IPA and impact evaluation in fragile states

by Chris Hoy and Ricardo Morel

18 October 2018

DP72 Pushing on a string? Public financial management reform and institutional transmission mechanisms in fragile states

by Tobias Haque

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