A UNIQUE experiment in rebuilding a nation is about to begin in Afghanistan.
Donor countries have unveiled a $15 billion reconstruction programme
which calls for a small-is-beautiful strategy.
Rather than wheeling out massive nationwide projects, the rehabilitation will
begin with villages organising themselves to install solar panels and small
hydroelectricity schemes, and rebuild local roads and wrecked irrigation
canals.
Donor nations pledged an initial $3 billion towards the rebuilding at
a meeting this week in Tokyo, after the programme was outlined in a report by
the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, the Asian Development Bank and the
interim Afghan…
