Failed States and factors that caused them to fail!

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I happen to attend a summit on Anti Corruption in eastern part of US last month; one of the issues discussed in three day summit was strong correlation between the following which resulted in failed states; in which African countries were quite prominent and only two were from Southern Asia (Afghanistan & Pakistan):

  1. Unaccountable (Power Base and Governing)

  2. Façade of Legitimacy (E.g., Democracy, Rule of Law etc.,) for optics

  3. Redefined macro level definitions (for sloganeering)

  4. Lax rules by International Donors (when determining the legitimacy of Governments when doling out $'s)

Interestingly (and not so positively) countries that were on the list in 2010 remained on this not so illustrious list in 2013 and even today in 2016.

We can see variety of high level reasons; for failure of the countries in this column The 25 Most Failed States On Earth - Business Insider

Are established countries leading the world failing to help the failing states or are they failing because of their own reasons in general; who has more onus for failures?

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Re: Failed States and factors that caused them to fail!

So you just listed the #1](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1) reason being unaccountable Government!

**well young fella what do you call a Govt that is spending more than it earns by the Tune of $19 Trillion

I call that the Good ole US of A

it tops the list of FAILED Govts! Right?**

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Re: Failed States and factors that caused them to fail!

The list is not in order of importance and also "unaccountable" was used in a different context where public office holders are so aloof that no system can touch them. Hope this helps!

There are multiple factors but only few are "illustrious enough" of failing - again and again!

But if you want to draw parallels between Pakistan and USA Governments- it's your pov and prerogative and you are entitled to it.

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Re: Failed States and factors that caused them to fail!

All this discussion about failed states is a fad. I dont think a single Pakistani would consider Pakistan to be a failed state. True there are problems but the situation is not out of control. I think it is more of a fear mongering.

It is my POV and hopefully I am also entitled to it.

:snooty:

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Re: Failed States and factors that caused them to fail!

This failed nation nonsense is just that. Pakistan's growing. Failed states arent building infrastructure, dont have functioning govt, dont have any institutions. To lump Pakistan in with Afghanistan is beyond stupid.