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Re: The Marks Plan, and nontraditional money
The underlying problem, as always, is corruption. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html Since 1996, most of Afghanistan has been controlled by the Taliban movement, which the United States does not recognize as the government of Afghanistan. The majority of the population continues to suffer from insufficient food, clothing, housing, and medical care. Inflation remains a serious problem throughout the country. International aid can deal with only a fraction of the humanitarian problem, let alone promote economic development. The economic situation did not improve in 1999-2000, as internal civil strife has continued, hampering both domestic economic policies and international aid efforts. Numerical data are likely to be either unavailable or unreliable. Afghanistan was by far the largest world producer of opium poppies in 2000, and narcotics trafficking is a major source of revenues. - Of course this is the classic supply and demand problem - bringing the drug problem right back home to us in the U.S. Japan and Germany were completely broken. Afghanistan as a country may be broken, but are the Taliban? And so what businesses should be established? Can we build? They already do that...with concrete. There are responses to this message:
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