| Description |
1 online resource (approximately 26 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Putting Afghan aid needs in a global perspective. -- Building on a legacy of failure. -- Dealing with a failed and corrupt Afghan government. -- Past U.S. failures in aid to Afghanistan. -- A Taliban postured for continuing failure. -- Using the wrong criteria to allocate and continue the flow of aid. -- Calls for humanitarian aid. -- Buying time versus addressing core problems. -- The need to integrate aid efforts to address development, security, and humanitarian needs. -- World Bank warnings about the state of the Afghan economy. -- CIA warnings about the state of the Afghan economy. -- An economy based on dependence, rather than development. -- Strategic triage and the need to set new standards for allocating and managing aid |
| Summary |
The analysis shows in detail that future aid to Afghanistan will not build on a foundation of success, but on a foundation of failure by the previous Afghan government - a failure that in part is the failure of past outside aid efforts to help a Western-backed Afghan government create successful development plans, and to enforce a high enough level of conditionality to limit the massive levels of corruption, waste, and misallocation of aid the previous Afghan government carried out over a period of nearly two decades. It also shows that any future U.S. aid to Afghanistan must be allocated with great care as to how it will actually be used, and its impact on the future character of the Afghan regime. So this analysis shows there are also many other nations that need U.S. aid and may use more effectively and in ways that do more to serve U.S. strategic interests. Moreover, it shows that it will be all too easy for the U.S. and other outside donors to focus on humanitarian aid, and on other kinds of aid that have only limited short term impacts and do more to help the Taliban retain power on its own terms, rather than help the Afghan people in lasting ways. This could mean providing aid to a hostile or near hostile regime which is of only marginal strategic interest to the U.S. at a time other friendly nations have major needs for aid and can make better use of such aid in ways that will have a lasting impact |
| Notes |
"August 15, 2022"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (CSIS, viewed August 22, 2022) |
| Subject |
Economic assistance -- Afghanistan -- Management
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Humanitarian assistance -- Afghanistan -- Management
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Economic assistance, American -- Government policy -- United States
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Humanitarian assistance, American -- Government policy -- United States
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Economic development -- Afghanistan
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Political corruption -- Afghanistan -- Prevention
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Economic assistance, American -- Government policy.
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Economic assistance -- Management.
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Economic development.
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Economic history.
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Political corruption -- Prevention.
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- Economic conditions
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Afghanistan.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cormarie, Paul
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Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), publisher.
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