Ending extreme poverty and empowering families to pursue better lives requires peaceful and stable societies.  Poverty rates are 21 percentage points higher, on average, in countries that have experienced a major conflict since 1981. During the past two decades, the total number of extreme poor in non-fragile states has fallen, while the number in fragile states has increased by nearly 50 million. In this paper by US Aid, Aaron Roesch suggests that to end poverty, focus should be directed at “fixing what is fixable” by building human and institutional capacity, scaling and replicating creative solutions and prioritising the reforms and investments most likely to unlock sustained, inclusive growth, while recognising that the poorest countries are coming from much further behind.
http://www.usaid.gov/frontiers/2014/publication/section-1-understanding-poverty-amid-fragility-moving-rhetoric-analysis

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