US researcher warns Nordics against giving aid to Pakistan border areas

News January 04, 2010

American researcher Andrew Wilder warns against expansion of Nordic aid into the border areas of Pakistan.

Wilder heads a Nordic-financed research project in Afghanistan and Pakistan which questions the assumption that development assistance in the form of roads, schools and infrastructure is an effective counter-insurgency tool that promotes stabilisation efforts.

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