May 25, 2011
By Masood Aziz
Injustice and the exercise of illegitimate power are now key reasons for a disaffected and disenchanted population. This is precisely where the Taliban find the space within which they thrive and where they seek and obtain support. Closing this gap by restoring a sense of justice and legitimacy will ... make the Taliban an irrelevant entity in Afghanistan...
...How did we ever get to this? ... Beginning in 2001, an massively uncoordinated model of international intervention was followed by massive inflows of foreign aid relative to domestic sources of capital, creating a textbook case of a rentier state.
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The first step would entail the establishment of a cash transfer of natural resource revenues directly to the citizens of Afghanistan. ...
Under this structure, the distributed cash would be taxed as normal income. ...
The second pillar of this strategy is tied to the National Solidarity Program (NSP). When first established in 2003, the NSP sought to empower Afghans in rural areas and at the grassroots by establishing local governance bodies called Community Development Councils in villages across the country. Cash grants were then given directly to these elected bodies to help them carry out small-scale rural projects. ...
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