Ashraf Ghani Takes On Karzai

I sat down for coffee last week with Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s finance minister from 2002 to 2004. He’s about to throw his hat into the ring of Afghan politics and challenge his former boss, Hamid Karzai, in the presidential election scheduled for August 18th. Ghani is a slight, balding man with a gentle voice and a keen mind; his background is in social sciences (he has a PhD in anthropology from Columbia) and the World Bank. He’s the technocratic alternative to the politics of warlordism and corruption, and he’s deeply fluent in the language of international development:
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