Author: Jason Yossef Ben-Meir
January 23, 2007
This report from Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) argues that US reconstruction efforts in Iraq are under-funded. The report argues that the United States still has the potential to implement successful development and reconstruction projects in Iraq: local community members in rural villages and neighborhoods need to identify and self-manage development projects that meet their priority needs. This bottom-up approach should borrow from the lessons of experience of Morocco, says the report.
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