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If the international community believes that these goals are correct, assistance should continue to be provided as long as the benchmarks are being met.
If they are not, assistance could be scaled back to avoid having international funds continue to support corrupt practices.
Internally generated reform is the only reform that can work, and it cannot occur if Afghan officials take international assistance for granted or see themselves as subordinate actors in their own reform process.
But the fact is, during the so-called six-party talks that began in 2003, five countries – including four key neighbors – offered North Korea a general peace agreement, guarantees of no hostile intent, a Korean Peninsula peace agreement, economic assistance, membership in a regional association, diplomatic relations, and a path to civil nuclear energy.
Moreover, foreign assistance, while stable in “normal” developing countries, often exhibits sharp spikes in countries undergoing war-to-peace transitions.
Low-income countries in the normal process of development, for example, receive steady inflows of official foreign assistance of about 3% of their gross national income.
Leaving aside the cost in terms of human lives, the economic costs of maintaining peace are but a fraction of what would be required for humanitarian assistance, military intervention, and peacekeeping operations should the country relapse into conflict.
By providing domestic firms with wage subsidies for hiring unskilled workers, donors would increase the effectiveness and fairness of their assistance in support of national-led reconstruction and conflict prevention.
As a matter of principle, companies that were in trouble prior to a severe economic crisis should not be eligible for state assistance of the type that the world recently witnessed.
Large-scale capital flight from the eurozone’s weaker economies would put them in dire straits, forcing their partners to provide even more emergency assistance, while capital flight from the eurozone as a whole could destabilize even its strongest economies, bringing the monetary union closer to a chaotic breakup.
Just a handful of countries – Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden – have met or exceeded the UN’s modest target of 0.7% of GDP for foreign development assistance.
It should, however, expect and demand progress and tailor its assistance to the performance of the countries concerned.
Such inducements are not hard to find: greater access to Europe's common market, more favorable visa regimes, job and immigration opportunities, access to capital, cultural contacts, and technical assistance.
Having failed to provide effective assistance, the West is no position to exert much political influence.
This will also transform governance and the delivery of official development assistance (ODA).
How then should foreign assistance to Iraq be spent?
Iraq is already one of the largest recipients of US assistance ever.
But a targeted assistance designed to improve the operations of Iraq’s police and government could help reduce violence.
The UN and the Haitian government recently created a high-level committee tasked with implementing a comprehensive strategy that covers all aspects of cholera prevention and response, including scaled-up assistance for families and communities.
Despite this, Obama is pursuing a military surge in Afghanistan but an aid surge to Pakistan, which is now the single largest recipient of US assistance in the world.
In such instances, military assistance may be relevant; in others, intervention may be necessary.
Aid and assistance can be used to strengthen the capacities of poor countries involved in these transnational systems.
A particularly important type of assistance is in helping other countries to develop capabilities to deal with weapons of mass destruction.
Another crucial area for assistance is the Cooperative Threat Reduction effort, which provides funds to help improve the control and destruction of weapons-grade materials in former Soviet countries.
If we must wait for development assistance to raise the world from poverty as the answer to terrorism, we will all be dead.
Development assistance by wealthy countries can help deprive terrorist leaders of such arguments by showing that policies are aligned with the long term aspirations of the poor.
And while most refugees there have received food assistance, health care, and emergency shelter, only one in ten – some 30,000 children – are currently attending school, because only 5% of the humanitarian aid needed to educate Myanmar’s refugee children has been met.
So the lesson should be obvious: In the absence of progressive policies, including strong social-welfare programs, job retraining, and other forms of assistance for individuals and communities left behind by globalization, Trumpian politicians may become a permanent feature of the landscape.
All that is needed is for wealthier countries to provide budgetary support and technical assistance to the low-income countries that need it.
For example, cutting off EU structural funds for regional development or other forms of assistance would punish the Polish and Hungarian people instead of their leaders, pushing them further away from the EU, and into the arms of their illiberal governments.
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