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Blog Post
May 19, 2011
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai.
It seems everyone has an opinion on what the U.S. should do with its aid to Pakistan. In recent weeks, there have been calls to freeze all assistance to Pakistan – military and economic –and calls to stay the course. Nearly three in four Americans back cu...
Multimedia
May 09, 2011
Why are we providing some $1.5 billion per year in development assistance to a country that couldn’t be bothered to find bin Laden? Now that Osama is dead, what the heck are we still doing in Pakistan?
On this special edition of the Global Prosperity Wonkcast I asked these provocative ...
Blog Post
May 03, 2011
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai and Molly Kinder.
The news of Osama bin Laden’s death in a hideout in Pakistan raises fresh questions about the future of the U.S. development program in that country. That bin Laden was found in the army town of Abbottabad - the Pakistani equivalent of We...
Multimedia
April 25, 2011
The United States has committed $1.5 billion per year over five years in an effort to support development in Pakistan, a fragile, nuclear-armed state of almost 190 million people that is in the frontline of the struggle against Islamic extremism. So, how’s that working out?