"It's considered fragile.
Many resource-producing countries and regions can be considered fragile.
Many other organizations, such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, identify and work with fragile states, without generating their own lists of which states are considered "fragile".
The Overseas Development Institute, a British think tank, for example, provides analysis and policy guidance on aid, delivery of human services, human security, poverty, and crisis response in dealing with fragile states but does not distinguish which countries are considered fragile.
Such drivers of a new vulnerability may not only occur within those states that are currently considered fragile but also within authoritarian regimes (e.g. in Asia or Latin America, or the Russian type of democracy), where resource revenues help to maintain political structures.
It is important to note that even low-DP objects still survive a lot of handling, and that given how infrequently most documents are handled, there is very little loss of fitness even for documents that are considered fragile (DP < 300).
But he cautioned there could be domino effects if investors become more risk-averse toward countries that are considered fragile for reasons that have nothing to do with Greece.
In Somalia, for example, an agreement was made with UNICEF to purchase the syringes so that it could continue to provide commodities to a country which is considered "fragile".
When considering fragile sites, rare and common sites must be clearly distinguished [ 35].
In 2009, 29 countries were considered fragile, comprising a sixth of the world's population [ 2, 3].
