However, donors and States must now focus on the education of children living in conflict-affected and fragile states.
In contrast, Messrs Kharas and Rogerson think the majority of the poor will be in fragile states in 2025.
The two also spoke about the challenges posed by fragile states such as Syria, Libya and Egypt, the spokesman added.
Officials said hundreds of millions of pounds could be diverted from aid to peacekeeping and stabilisation operations, particularly in fragile states.
This will involve giving wide-ranging assistance, potentially over a long period of time, to fragile states focused on security training and combat prevention.
The same day, a series of IIEP research publications on "Education in conflict, emergencies, reconstruction and fragile states" will be launched at 5.30 p.m.
If America ends up (however reluctantly) with an empire of fragile states, it would do well to persuade allies to share the burden of policing them.
Such missions have revived a fundamental question for France: Whether it is possible for the former colonial power to move beyond protector to an assortment of prickly, fragile states.
There is some basis for being underwhelmed: While President Obama may be concerned with eliminating nukes for good, most security experts left and right are primarily concerned with preventing their spread to fragile states, reckless regimes and non-state organizations.
Again the national security strategy proposes a new departure, again a lesson learnt from recent conflicts ranging from Rwanda and Bosnia to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia: to create a standby international civilian capability so that for fragile and failing states we can act quickly and comprehensively by combining the humanitarian, peacekeeping, stabilisation and reconstruction support they need.
However, the cat (or, rather, subatomic particles that behave like the cat) has proved hard to hunt down in practice because such superpositions of states are fragile and easily disrupted phenomena.
In Asia and Latin America, economic reforms had often been started by authoritarian regimes, but in Africa, where states are fragile, governments have had to carry out economic reforms and democratise at the same time.
As early as next year, the number of poor in what are sometimes called FRACAS (fragile and conflict-affected states) could be greater than the number in stable ones.
How should the Bank operate in the 30 or so remaining low-income clients, nearly all in sub-Saharan Africa and mostly fragile or post-conflict states, the precise places where the Bank has had the least success ?
He was America's secretary of defence during the Gulf War in 1991, when he played a key role in maintaining a fragile and fractious coalition of Arab states long enough to achieve a modicum of victory.
At a time when cities and states are already strapped and our fragile economy needs every small business and working family at full speed, it's the job of our federal government to help.
"If we are not careful, we risk overwhelming fragile and under-resourced asylum systems in the new EU member-states, " he said before the meeting.
In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, it became transparently obvious that the United States could ill-afford to depend virtually entirely upon so fragile a system as the space shuttle for its access to space.
While the Center welcomes the apparently fair and free Czechoslovak elections of 8-9 June 1990, it believes that the United States and other democracies must remember that Czechoslovakia is still in a fragile -- and perhaps perilous -- process of institutionalizing democracy.
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While the United States, Russia and Iran struggle for economic or ideological influence in the region, the Caspian's fragile ecosystem is buckling under the hasty and disorderly expoitation of its resources.
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