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Our experience with authoritarian rule, however, is that it undermines the goal of post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction by its need to maintain our society’s divisions artificially.
We simply lack the resources to undertake the great task of reconstruction without assistance.
In calling for measures to “guard against systemic risk,” the G-20 summit has begun the process of reconstruction by recognizing that the system in its entirety, not just individual institutions, must be regulated.
The US has disbursed about $110 billion for Afghan reconstruction.
(Adjusted for inflation, that is equivalent to the $12.5 billion cost of the Marshall Plan for reconstruction in Europe after World War II.)
Despite the clear and mounting evidence of the cost-effectiveness of timely action to mitigate the damage storms cause, the world spends far more on post-disaster aid and reconstruction than it does on mitigation, and this is especially true in poor countries.
It is this extraordinary, historic act that made possible the reconstruction and successful development of Europe over the last half-century.
A further $3 billion in credits for European post-war reconstruction cemented America’s status as the world’s premier creditor nation, with its surplus equal to roughly 8% of GNP at the time.
He pointed out that, unlike post-war Europe, Africa does not require reconstruction; its problems require more sophisticated responses.
Conceived in 1944 at Bretton Woods primarily as an instrument through which a war-torn world’s physical assets were to be rebuilt, the IBRD’s accent was on reconstruction; development was essentially an afterthought, with the first loans going exclusively to Europe.
The Bank’s development focus emerged as the reconstruction task waned, and its current breadth and scope was consolidated under Robert McNamara’s presidency, from 1968 to 1981.
Just as reconstruction finance gave way to development lending over the course of the Bank’s history, its current focus on banking operations should be reconsidered, as the organization’s main source of added value now lies in its formidable potential as a center of knowledge and a coordinator of international policies.
Recovering from both crises will require effective economic reconstruction to create jobs.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, reconstruction must include not only the rehabilitation of services and infrastructure, but – more challenging – the creation of a macroeconomic, legal, and regulatory framework for effective policymaking.
While programs in industrial and emerging economies aimed at addressing the financial crisis have been broadly debated at the national and international level, the debate about Afghanistan and Iraq has been narrowly focused on military and security issues, undermining the need for a major effort at effective reconstruction.
Many assume that the cost is so high because reconstruction is expensive.
But only 6% of this amount was allocated for reconstruction and other aid programs.
World leaders should recognize that a larger investment in reconstruction, together with a comprehensive and well-balanced strategy to ensure accountability and appropriate policies for lawful employment, could have prevented these vast military expenditures, both in Iraq since 2006 and in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was ousted in 2001.
The international community should recognize that military, security, and peacekeeping operations are costly and will not succeed in the absence of new, innovative, and integrated strategies for economic reconstruction.
Fortunately, the opposite happened: federal revenues tripled under the impact of a rapid post-war reconstruction boom, and continued to grow rapidly, aided by the country’s ability to remain neutral while wars ravaged the European continent.
Art and literature were at the heart ofthe revolution, and they must remain engaged today, for they lie at the heartof reconciliation and reconstruction as well.
Both lessons – about the slowness and painfulness of bank reconstruction, and about dependence on a large external provider of capital – are unpalatable.
Halliburton is now at the front of the line for Iraqi reconstruction projects, for which contracts are being handed out without any transparent and competitive process whatsoever.
Carroll's most recent job was as Chief Executive of Fluor, the giant construction conglomerate, another company that, together with Bechtel and Halliburton, is in line for the big bucks that will soon be paid (using Iraq's oil earnings) for US-led reconstruction.
This week, the economist and frequent US official Lawrence Summers, in a lecture at the London School of Economics, called for another reconstruction of macroeconomic thought – and of the institutions and orientation of central banking.
Any financial aid should be channeled through organizations like the Red Cross and UNICEF to supply medical care to civilians, or allocated to a fund for post-war reconstruction.
Fifth, ensure that such aid moves quickly from short-run humanitarian purposes – to save lives and feed those giving up war – to reconstruction activities aimed at creating investment, productivity growth, and the sustainable employment that will enable people to live dignified lives.
Ninth, establish economic reconstruction zones to jump-start sustainable economic activity, create jobs and export earnings, improve aid effectiveness and accountability, and avoid aid dependency.
In settling the Afghan war, the government and donors should seek to eschew the pattern of unkept promises that has bedeviled reconstruction of the country in the past.
To make matters worse, the demand for wood for reconstruction following last year’s tsunami is intensifying the already untenable demands being placed on Sumatra’s forests.
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