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href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/files/9373_file_WP96_final.pdf"><img style="margin-bottom: -1px;" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108144224im_/http://www.cgdev.org/layout/file_icons/icon_pdf.png"> Download (PDF,596 KB)</a>      <a target="_newfb" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108144224/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9373/&t=Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money - Working Paper 96"><img style="position: relative;top: -1px;" src="/web/20120108144224im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/facebook_share.png"></a>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108144224/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CGDev">Tweet</a></div> <p>Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown</p> <p class="detailDate">08/14/2006</p> <p><img class="bookcover left" height="128" alt="Fragile States" src="/web/20120108144224im_/http://cgdev.org/images/devupdate/brokenglasswb.jpg" width="170"/>The Bush administration has increasingly acknowledged that weak and failing states represent the core of today's global development challenge. It has also recognized that such states are potential threats to international peace and security. But despite the rhetoric, it has yet to formulate a coherent strategy around fragile states or commit adequate resources towards engaging them. Excluding funding for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and HIV/AIDS, the administration鈥檚 FY07 budget request proposes to spend just $1.1 billion in direct bilateral assistance to fragile states--little more than a dollar per person per year. <p/>In this new working paper, CGD research fellow Stewart Patrick and program associate Kaysie Brown urge U.S. policymakers to consider increasing aid to fragile states and to think creatively about how and when to engage these troubled countries. The authors also call for the policy community to integrate non-aid instruments into a more coherent government strategy. To put its money where its mouth is, the U.S. should treat aid to weak and failing states as a form of venture capital, with high risk but potentially high rewards. This will require patience and perseverance, but will also reap greater rewards when successful.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108144224/http://www.cgdev.org/doc/weakstates/07BudgetRequests.pdf" target="_blank">2007 U.S. Budget Request Data</a> is also available.</p></p><div class="download-pdf" style="float:right;visibility:hidden;" id="div_bottom_share"><a target="_newfb" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108144224/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9373/&t=Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money - Working Paper 96"><img style="position: relative;top: -1px;" src="/web/20120108144224im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/facebook_share.png"></a>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108144224/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="horizontal" data-via="CGDev">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120108144224js_/http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>  </td> <td style="width:20px"></td> <td id="section-sidebar" valign="top">  <h3>Initiatives</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/assistance">Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_archive/liberia">Supporting Liberia's Reconstruction and Development</a></li> </ul> <h3>Research Topics</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/topics/aid_effectiveness/">Aid Effectiveness</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/topics/regions/">Regions</a></li> </ul> <h3>CGD Experts</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2715/">Stewart Patrick</a></li> </ul> <h3>Articles</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1421593/">U.S. Assistance to Africa: A Call for Foreign Aid Reform--Testimony for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1421502/">Senators Urged to Reform USAID for Afghan Fight (Agence France Presse)</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/content/article/detail/1423595/">Five Years On, U.S. Lacks Strategy for Fragile States</a></li> </ul> <br/>  </td> </tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"> var share_div = $("#div_bottom_share"); var offset = share_div.offset(); if(offset.top > 999 || 0){ document.getElementById('div_bottom_share').style.visibility = 'visible'; } </script>  <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-top"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td align="left"> <a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/contactus/">Contact Us</a> | <a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/about/presscenter/">Press Center</a> | <a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/about/employment/">Jobs</a> | <a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/about_enews/sitefeeds/">RSS</a> | <a href="/web/20120108144224/http://cgdev.org/section/about/donate/">Invest</a> </td> <td align="right"> © 2012, CGD. 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