20 Years After The Afghanistan Invasion, A Lesson In How Not To Spend Development Aid

However well intentioned U.S. aid was, it had the ironic effect of contributing to instability in Afghanistan's institutions and fueling corruption.

I wrote the below piece for NBCNews.com with Efosa Ojomo, a senior researcher at the Clayton Christensen Institute and coauthor with Clay Christensen and Karen Dillon of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. I’m including it in this newsletter because I think that the findings may have significant implications for how w…