Afghan aid does more harm than good in wrong hands - The National

The unintended consequences of pumping large amounts of aid resources into Afghanistan could have been avoided, if only Afghanistan's national partners had listened to the Afghan people. In conference after conference since 2002, President Hamid Karzai has appealed to the international community to help to build capacity in the country's post-war state institutions and to channel their aid resources through these institutions over time. - Afghan aid does more harm than good in wrong hands
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