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How to rebuild a broken state

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Ashraf Ghani |

TEDGlobal 2005

• July 2005

Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of Afghanistan.

Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of Afghanistan.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Ashraf Ghani

President of Afghanistan

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Afghanistan's president Ashraf Ghani has initiated sweeping economic, trade, social and peace reforms.

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