The World Bank’s definition of fragile states covers low-income countries scoring 3.2 and below on the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA), which is the primary tool used to assess the quality of country policies and the main input to IDA’s Performance-Based Allocation (PBA) system.
In Fiscal Year 2007 this covers 34 IDA-eligible countries (out of 82 IDA borrowing countries ). Click on links below to learn more about progress and challenges in select countries:
- - Afghanistan
- - Angola
- - Burundi
- - Cambodia
- - Central African Republic
- - Chad
- - Democratic Republic of Congo
- - Republic of Congo
- - Comoros
- - Cote d’Ivoire
- - Djibouti
- - Eritrea
- - The Gambia
- - Guinea
- - Guinea-Bissau
- - Haiti
| - - Lao PDR
- - Liberia
- - Mauritania
- - Myanmar
- - Nigeria
- - Papua New Guinea
- - Sao Tome and Principe
- - Sierra Leone
- - Solomon Islands
- - Somalia
- - Sudan
- - Timor-Leste
- - Togo Tonga
- - Vanuatu
- - Uzbekistan
- - Zimbabwe
- - the territory of Kosovo
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The list of fragile states is updated annually, based on the computation of the countries’ individual CPIAs. Over the medium to long term, there is significant movement in and out of the fragile states category.
How Are IDA Resources Allocated? On the basis of borrowers' policy performance and institutional capacity in order to concentrate resources where they are likely to be most helpful in reducing poverty. Learn more
What is IDA? The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that provides interest-free credits to the world's poorest countries. Learn more
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