The Development Review – Beyond Research | ISSN No 2220 – 7651 |Vol1. Issue 1. October 2012
non-African countries ranking highly in this cluster, Timor-Leste has entered our top 20 while Afghanistan, Haiti and Yemen remain firmly stuck among the poorest performers. Indeed of the fragile states that appear on all three lists Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, DRC and Chad might all be characterized as either failed or collapsed. Those that can be found on two lists are more numerous, accounting for half of the total and include: Myanmar, Côte d’Ivoire, Iran, Ethiopia, CAR, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Mauritania and Eritrea. Whether any of these countries are mired in fragility or on a path to recovery is a question we answer in section 4 below. Regional and Country-Level Analysis Figures 4 and 5, show respectively, regional averages organized by fragility and ALC clusters, and by six cluster areas, which include governance, economics, security and crime, human development, demography and the environment. These cluster areas are discussed further below at the country level. Gender is included as a cross-cutting theme (drawing on specific indicators from each of the six clusters). A full description of the component indicators of the six clusters and the rationale for creating them can be found on the CIFP website at www.carleton.ca/cifp.
Each figure reveals some interesting, and in some cases, counterintuitive results. For example, figure 4 provides a relative ranking based on fragility scores moving from left to right 101