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Aid Paradoxes in Afghanistan

Nematullah Bizhan

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  • 214 sidor
  • 2019
The relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and the effects of aid on weak states depend on donors interests, aid modalities and the recipients pre-existing institutional and socio-political conditions. This book argues that, in the case of Afghanistan, the country inherited conditions that were not favourable for effective state building. Although some of the problems that emerged in the post-2001 state building process were predictable, the types of interventions that occurredincluding an aid architecture which largely bypassed the state, the subordination of state building to the war on terror, and the short horizon policy choices of donors and the Afghan governmentreduced the effectiveness of the aid and undermined effective state building. By examining how foreign aid affected state building in Afghanistan since the US militarily intervened in Afghanistan in late 2001 until the end of President Hamid Karzais first term in 2009, this book reveals the dynamic and complex relations between the Afghan government and foreign donors in their efforts to rebuild state institutions. The work explores three key areas: how donors supported government reforms to improve the taxation system, how government reorganized the states fiscal management system, and how aid dependency and aid distribution outside the government budget affected interactions between state and society. Given that external revenue in the form of tribute, subsidies and aid has shaped the characteristics of the state in Afghanistan since the mid-eighteenth century, this book situates state building in a historical context. This book will be invaluable for practitioners and anyone studying political economy, state building, international development and the politics of foreign aid.
  • Författare: Nematullah Bizhan
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780367888862
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 214
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-12-12
  • Förlag: Routledge