Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 10/2014

Maximizing the Impact of Aid to Pakistan: Leverage Reform and Local Capacity

Richard Albright

July 2014

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

Overcoming Pakistan's many challenges, and meeting the development needs of its people, requires working through the institutions of Pakistani governance if sustainable impacts are to be achieved. U.S. aid, if offered consistently and in support of systemic institutional reform, can have a valuable catalytic role to assist and incentivize these efforts.