Aid Paradoxes in Afghanistan - Building and Undermining the State

This book examines how foreign aid has affected Afghanistan's weak state since US intervention in 2001. It argues that the relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and that the effects of aid on weak states depends on donors' interests, aid modality and the recipient's pre-existing institutional and socio-political conditions.

List of contents

Introduction  1. Aid and State Building  2. Reliance on External Revenue: Afghanistan from 1747 to 2000  3. Rebuilding an Aid-based Rentier State  4. Reforms and Setbacks: Rebuilding the Revenue System  5. Budget Spending: Fiscal Fragmentation and Patronage  6. Interactions between the State and Society  Conclusion

About the author

Nematullah Bizhan is a Research Fellow at the Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Oxford University’s Global Economic Governance Program and a Fellow of Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy and Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He has a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University and was previously a high-level participant in the post-2001 government of Afghanistan.

Summary

This book examines how foreign aid has affected Afghanistan’s weak state since US intervention in 2001. It argues that the relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and that the effects of aid on weak states depends on donors’ interests, aid modality and the recipient’s pre-existing institutional and socio-political conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Nematullah Bizhan, Nematullah (Australian National University Bizhan, Nematullah (University of Oxford) Bizhan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138047617
• ISBN: 978-1-138-04761-7
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Studies in Middle East Development; Routledge Studies in Middle Ea; Routledge Studies in Middle East Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Afghanistan, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, International Relations, 21st Century, Aid & relief programmes, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Development Studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Development economics & emerging economies