Pakistan, Big Ideas / The Milken Institute Review
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Looney, Robert
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2012
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It's hardly a secret that U.S. aid to Pakistan has
failed to meet its political objectives – that the $20 billion given to this strategically
critical country since 9/11 has generated little goodwill for the United States or cooperation
in the war in Afghanistan. What may surprise, though, is that aid targeted at
improving Pakistan’s economy has also been a bust, perhaps even reducing the pace
of development. Indeed, geostrategic considerations have willfully blinded us to the
hard-won lesson that economic aid that is not carefully targeted on bottom-up programs
in failed states like Pakistan is likely to be counterproductive.
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National Security Affairs
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The Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter 2012
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.