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In September the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) released its review of World Bank support to ‘fragile states’. The report gave the Bank a mixed review on its effectiveness, but raised serious questions about both the way the Bank is organised internally to deal with fragile states and the system it uses to allocate resources. Researchers and Bank-watchers question whether the review has gone far enough to examine what causes state ‘fragility’ and what role Bank-led reforms and projects may play in fostering it.