{"id":5927,"date":"2017-06-01T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2017-06-02T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T06:42:07","slug":"burundi-once-again-falls-into-fragile-state-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-once-again-falls-into-fragile-state-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi once again falls into fragile state index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Bank and African Development Bank have identified 19 states including Burundi that fall into the fragile states criteria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3976\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3976\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3976\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Faustin-ndikumana-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Faustin Ndikumana: \u201cfragile states do not have access to long-term loans for dynamic internal development\u201d\" width=\"455\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Faustin-ndikumana-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Faustin-ndikumana-600x458.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Faustin-ndikumana.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faustin Ndikumana: \u201cfragile states do not have access to long-term loans for dynamic internal development\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A fragile state is a low-income country characterized by week state capacity or legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks. The World Bank deems a country to be fragile if it is eligible for assistance from the International Development Organization.<\/p>\n<p>According to Faustin Ndikumana, Chairman of local organization Speech and Action for the Awakening of Consciences and Mentality Change (PARCEM), a fragile state has many problems. \u201cFragile states are countries whose institutions do not rely on good governance and fail to exploit the natural resources they have,\u201d says Ndikumana.<\/p>\n<p>He says the population of these fragile states lives in poverty while their countries have enormous resources.<\/p>\n<p>Ndikumana says fragile states do not have access to long-term loans for dynamic internal development. \u201cCountries deemed to be fragile states are eligible for only grants because they are considered not to be able to repay the debts,&#8221; he says.<br \/>\nThe Paris conventions reserved the financing mechanisms of fragile states, according to Ndikumana. Burundi has many times demanded to leave the group of fragile states but its request has been rejected up to now.<\/p>\n<p>Ndikumana calls on Burundi authorities to promote good governance principle to leave fragile states index. \u201cIt is still possible since Burundi has enough assets,\u201d says Ndikumana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank and African Development Bank have identified 19 states including Burundi that fall into the fragile states criteria. A fragile state is a low-income country characterized by week state capacity or legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks. The World Bank deems a country to be fragile if it is eligible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[715,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5928,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}