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Ashraf Ghani says he is running for Afghan president with plenty of ideas, if not campaign contributions.
Mr. Ghani, who is the leading challenger to President Hamid Karzai, said Afghanistan needs "vision and management" as well as security. And the former finance minister and World Bank official said he can provide it.
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When international donors meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York on March 31 to continue discussions on rebuilding Haiti, it will present what former Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani calls "an open moment" - a brief period in time that will determine a country's future direction. Reconstructing roads and buildings is vital, but if Haiti is to use this moment to break away from the poverty, despair and environmental degradation that has plagued it for the past two centuries, it will have to do a lot more. In order to achieve lasting changes, Haiti must rebuild its decrepit government institutions with strong anti-corruption policies and a clean bureaucracy.
Despite more than $5 billion in international aid to Haiti over the past 20 years, this country of 10 million is st...
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Ghani's forum address rescheduled
WOOSTER -- Ashraf Ghani, former Afghan finance minister and presidential candidate, will address the second session of the 2010 Wooster Forum on Monday at 7:30 p.m. at The College of Wooster's McGaw Chapel, 340 E. University St. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 7:30 p.m. His topic will be "Afghanistan: Owning the Present; Building the Future.
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KABUL - A Democratic Party strategist who helped Bill Clinton get into the White House is now assisting a former Afghan finance minister in his campaign to unseat President Hamid Karzai in upcoming elections.
James Carville said he joined the team of Ashraf Ghani, also a former World Bank official, so Afghans had a viable choice in the Aug. 20 poll.
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... In a recent speech to the Aspen Institute, Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghan Minister of Finance, gave...
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...Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart report that, from 2002 to...
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... Robert Ballard, Afghanistan-rebuilder Ashraf Ghani and Google founder Larry Page. . [ILLUSTRATI...
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BERLIN (AP) - Donors at an international conference pledged $8.2 billion over the next three years to help rebuild Afghanistan and smooth its transition to post-Taliban democracy, the Afghan finance minister said Wednesday.
Ashraf Ghani said he was "delighted" with the pledges, made after Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed to officials from more than 50 countries to help his war-ravaged country support itself and confront the threat from private militias.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Hotel guest Abdul Zahir Faizada watched as a uniformed gunman shoved a man to the ground and shot him to death at point-blank range. Suddenly, gunfire erupted and another assailant blew himself up.
By the time the siege of the luxury Inter-Continental Hotel ended Wednesday, 20 people lay dead - including nine attackers, all of whom wore suicide-bomber vests - and one of Kabul's premier landmarks was left a grisly scene of bodies, shrapnel and shattered glass.
... military coalition, Afghan government and Ashraf Ghani, chairman of the transition commission, all ...
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... groups how many each could bring." (22) Ashraf Ghani, another participant in Bonn and finance min...