For close to sixty years Afghanistan was one of the largest recipients of foreign development aid and yet it remains one of the poorest countries on the planet. The Soviet Union provided Afghanistan with large-scale economic and technical assistance for nearly twenty-five years before invading in 1979 and then increased the volume of assistance even further during the 1980s in an effort to prop up the government and undermine the anti-Soviet insurgency. None of this aid made any lasting difference to Afghan poverty. As in so many other countries, foreign aid did not promote economic growth. Using unexplored Russian sources, this book describes and analyses the economic and technical assistance programs run by the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s through to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and places them in the context of both Soviet-era development theories and more recent ideas about the role of institutions in fostering economic growth. In some respects Soviet development theorists were actually ahead of their contemporary Western counterparts in realising the centrality of institution-building, but they proved unable to translate their theories into practical solutions. The reasons why their assistance programs failed so completely in Afghanistan remain compellingly relevant today.

Aiding Afghanistan: A History of Soviet Assistance to a Developing Country

Politics & Social Sciences

ROBINSON, PAUL

Dixon, Jay

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

For nearly sixty years, Afghanistan has been one of the world's largest recipients of foreign development aid, yet it remains one of the poorest countries on earth. The Soviet Union provided Afghanistan with large-scale economic and technical assistance for close to twenty-five years before it invaded the country in 1979. It increased its assistance during the 1980s in an effort to prop up the current government and undermine the insurgency, yet none of this aid made any lasting difference to Afghan poverty. The same can be said for many other countries, in which foreign aid failed to promote economic growth. Drawing on overlooked Soviet sources, this book investigates the Soviet Union's economic and technical assistance programs from the mid-1950s to the regime's collapse in 1991. It connects these programs' approaches to both Soviet-era development theory and more modern ideas about the role of institutions in fostering economic growth. In some respects, by acknowledging the centrality of institution-building, Soviet development theorists were actually ahead of their contemporary Western counterparts, yet these intellectuals failed to translate their ideas into practical solutions. This volume identifies the strengths and ultimate weaknesses of these programs, with findings that have wide implications for the future of international aid.

Aiding Afghanistan: A History of Soviet Assistance to a Developing Country (Columbia/Hurst)

History

Asia

Columbia University Press

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Routledge

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