Afghanistan has 303 international NGOs, also known as INGOs - including sub-sets dubbed BINGOs (business-related INGOs) and MANGOs (mafia-related NGOs). Over 2,000 Afghan NGOs have been disbanded for lack of evidence that they were doing anything, but there are still 1,327 operating.
After the end of World War II in the Pacific, religious rites known as "cargo cults" emerged among the more primitive islanders, pathetically trying to bring back the well-paid jobs and the extravagant logistics that came and went with the advancing US armed forces.
I wonder what the long-term effect of all this corrupting "charity" will be on the Afghans after the westerners and the hopelessly corrupt regime they sustain are gone?
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The reason that Pakistanis and Afghans are drawn to Italy is that they instinctively recognize a 'sister-culture.' In any of those countries, in order to get anything done, you have to know whom to pay. And then whom to employ (and pay).
ReplyDeleteSifarish is a Paki term for 'connections' and in such countries connections are not published in an annual Business Directory. One has to find out. For this, you need a Guide, excuse me, you need (To Pay) someone to offer guidance.
If you have friends, they may know someone, a friend or relative, who will do this. Now you owe your friend and you owe their friend. Try to
remember, or, conversely, if you are lucky enough to be leaving soon, it may be possible to try to forget what you owe whom.
The opposite of this is the very bad luck you will have if you spend a lot of social time with the enemies or competitors of the people with whom you need a connection. By making friends with a chap on the incoming plane and going to dinner with someone you have just met, you may effectively queer the whole deal that brought you there in the first place - well, more in Asia than in Italy. I give you that.
Sifarish operates everywhere. Over here they call it the "old boy network". Bribery is far more commonplace in Britain than people are prepared to recognize.
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