Development Assistance and Counterinsurgency: Understanding Philanthropy and Charity Within a Clear-Hold-Build Strategy
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2014-05
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Boardman, Mary C.
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This dissertation explores the ineffectiveness of development assistance as an intervention into a complex system, and makes a contribution in explaining how and why this is so. Specifically, this issue is explored within a charity-philanthropy context. As the build component of counterinsurgency (COIN) in Afghanistan is currently the most high-stakes, policy relevant example of US development assistance, this dissertation explores these issues within a COIN context.
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Economics, Public policy, Entrepreneurship, Agent-Based Modeling, Counterinsurgency, Development Assistance, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy