Afghanistan should not be approached as a charity, but as an investment. Ashraf Ghani Ghanis management skills, which sparked an economic revival in post-Taliban Afghanistan, earned him Asias vote as the best finance minister on the continent. — The New York Sun Ghani was a key figure in rebuilding Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, and is a leading advocate for foreign investment (rather than foreign aid) as a tool for economic development and the eradication of poverty. Ashraf Ghani spent years in academia studying state-building and social transformation, and a decade in executive positions at the World Bank trying to effect policy in these two fields. In just 30 months, he carried out radical and effective reforms (a new currency, new budget, new tariffs, etc) and was instrumental in preparing for the elections of October 2004. In 2006, he was a candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the United Nations, and one year later, was put in the running to head the World Bank. Ashraf Ghani: How to rebuild a broken state- Lecture ted/talks/ashraf_ghani_on_rebuilding_broken_states
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