Saturday, July 7, 2012

Impact of Foreign Aid on Afghanistan's Poorest Province


In the last 10 years Afghanistan has received $60bn in foreign aid, but Bamiyan, the nation's poorest province once known to tourists for its beauty, stands as an example of the Central Asian nation's reliance on foreign aid. Though electricity has been brought to the province with the help of the Norwegian government and the Aga Khan Foundation, a nongovernmental organisation, the relative peacefulness of Bamiyan means it has received less infrastructure attention than its more dangerous neighbours. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Bamiyan.

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