Building state functionality is difficult, and particularly so in fragile environments marred by weak institutions and political instability. Eliana La Ferrara discusses four methods to overcome the challenges of fragile states.

This [VoxDev Talk](https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/building-functional-state-difficult-places-0) is taken from a video that was previously published on the [IGC's](https://www.theigc.org/multimedia/building-a-functional-state-in-difficult-places/) website.