Afghan aid ‘wasteful and ineffective’
Posted by walker on March 25th, 2008
The international aid effort in Afghanistan is in large part “wasteful and ineffective”, with as much as 40 per cent of funds spent going back to donor countries in corporate profits and consultant salaries, Kabul-based charities will say on Tuesday.
This is not an accident – rather it is the new mode of imperial profiteering.
Predictably, the CBC also ran this story, but only mentioned the part about aid retuning to donor countries in the form of corporate profits as a footnote. The main emphasis being the assertion that not enough aid is being sent to Afghanistan in the first place.
