Fixing failed statesAshraf Ghani
Fixing failed states
by Ashraf Ghani · first published 2009
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Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the effort has not succeeded. Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart have taken an active part in the effort to save failed states for many years, serving as World Bank officials, as advisers to the UN, and as hig
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Reminds me of how the ousted Afghan President literally "wrote the book" on Fixing Failed States: https://www.amazon.com/Fixing-Failed-States-Framework-Rebuil... This would be an accurate summary of this book: > 1. Overthrow dictatorship > 2. ... > 3. Profit! I love how the section on "Building…
on “How to move from Dictatorship to Democracy [pdf]” ↗…people, the world is pretty hard to navigate with book learning. I’m reminded of the last president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, a professor at Hopkins with a PhD from Columbia who wrote a book called “Fixing Failed States.” Yet he was spectacularly unsuccessful at fixing the problems that were squarely within the field of his expertise. Given the limits academia’s predictive power with respect to complex issues, I think…
on “Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class” ↗…people, the world is pretty hard to navigate with book learning. I’m reminded of the last president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, a professor at Hopkins with a PhD from Columbia who wrote a book called “Fixing Failed States.” Yet he was spectacularly unsuccessful at fixing the problems that were squarely within the field of his expertise. Outliers. You cannot come to conclusions based on examining outliers only. The better…
on “Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class” ↗…one of the richest countries in Latin America. Has Krugman done any of that? Krugman makes me think of Ashraf Ghani, the former President of Afghanistan and academic. The guy literally wrote a book “Fixing Failed States.” Then he got the chance to put his theory to practice and he flamed out miserably. Then there’s Muhammad Yunus, another Nobel Prize winning economist who is currently shitting the bed as prime minister…
…economist in charge. Now GDP growth has collapsed and the security situation has become precarious. I’m also reminded of Ashraf Ghani, the last President of Afghanistan, who was a professor and wrote a book “Fixing Failed States.” He ended up fleeing the country like a coward as it collapsed. It’s notable that students played a major role in the 1979 Iranian revolution that ended up putting the Ayatollah in power. In fact to…
on “Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament” ↗I’m also reminded of Ashraf Ghani, the last President of Afghanistan, who was a professor and wrote a book “Fixing Failed States.” He ended up fleeing the country like a coward as it collapsed. Meh, no amount genius would have helped someone fix Afghanistan given that it was controlled by drug dealers abetted by the US state.…
on “Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament” ↗