Showing posts with label afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label afghanistan. Show all posts
January 20, 2010
It's not just the Taliban holding back Afghanistan
BBC Report today unveils the huge scale of bribery going on in Afghanistan. In fact it equals almost a quarter of the nation's GDP! No country, especially a wartorn one, can hope to build sustainable economic development with that scale of corruption. A commitment to honest dealing is a cornerstone of a successful market economy. Without it history shows us that fair dealing will be imposed - either through socialist intervention or through fundamentalist authoritarianism. If the western nations hope to see a semblance of market growth and the first shoots of democratic institutions then they will need to look more broadly than just military, or material aid.
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