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“Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.”
— Ashraf GhaniAshraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states
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“Every Afghan sees the sky as a source of fear. We were bombed practically out of existence.”
— Ashraf GhaniAshraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states
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“Money is not capital in most of the developing countries. It’s just cash — because it lacks the institutional, organizational, managerial forms to turn it into capital.”
— Ashraf GhaniAshraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states
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“The majority of the world benefits neither from capitalism nor from democratic systems. Most of the globe experiences the state as repressive, as an organization that is concerned about denial of rights — about denial of justice, rather than provision of it.”
— Ashraf GhaniAshraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states
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“When I joined as finance minister [of Afghanistan], I thought that the chances of my living more than three years would not be more than five percent.”
— Ashraf GhaniAshraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states
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“When I went back to Afghanistan after 23 years, space had expanded. Every conceivable form of infrastructure had broken down. Travel between two cities that used to take three hours now took 12.”
— Ashraf GhaniAshraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states
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