CIAO DATE: 10/2014
August 2014
Center for Strategic and International Studies
It is unclear that the United States has any current assessments and strategy to deal with either these governance or economic issues. If it does, it has provided no transparency as to what these plans are, and has failed to develop any effective public measures of the effectiveness of its civil aid programs after more than 10 years of effort, and in spite of the fact that the civil dimension of counterinsurgency efforts is at least as important as the military efforts. It is also important to note that World Bank and UN reporting show the same lack of progress in governance, economics, and human development in Pakistan as in Afghanistan. These trends are laid out in graphic form in a new Burke Chair report entitled Pakistan and Afghanistan: International Indicators of Progress, which is available on the CSIS web site at https://csis.org/files/publication/140820_afghan_pakistan_indicators.pdf. As is the case with Afghanistan, this report highlights a critical lack of progress in many key areas of reporting.
Resource link: Pakistan and Afghanistan: International Indicators of Progress [PDF] - 821K