Graciana del Castillo
Graciana del Castillo is the author of Rebuilding War-Torn States and the forthcoming Guilty Party: The International Community in Afghanistan.
Graciana del Castillo is the author of Rebuilding War-Torn States and the forthcoming Guilty Party: The International Community in Afghanistan.
Recognizing that continued economic uncertainty will exacerbate Afghanistan's perilous political and security situation, the government has announced a new set of measures aimed at attracting foreign … read more
January 16 marks the 20th anniversary of the peace agreement between El Salvador’s government and the FMLN guerrillas. El Salvador’s experience provides key lessons that should serve as a model for ot… read more
In settling the Afghan war, the government and donors should seek to eschew the pattern of unkept promises that has bedeviled reconstruction of the country in the past. Only then will Afghanistan be a… read more
Latin America showed strong resilience during the international financial crisis. But this successful performance, together with high growth rates from 2004 to 2010, seems to have led to an unhealthy … read more
It may or may not be coincidental, but as the US-led military offensive in Afghanistan gets underway, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has at long last embarked on a process of national reconciliation. T… read more
Policymakers, academics, and journalists have been discussing the global financial crisis and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as if they somehow existed on parallel tracks. But today’s financial and f… read more
At the October 22 donors’ meeting on Georgia, aid pledges rolled in, totaling $4.5 billion. But the process was deeply flawed, and it overlooked the need for inclusive and dynamic growth, without whic… read more
Inflows of foreign direct investment in Latin America remain below their peak 10 years ago, and the region's share of global FDI has fallen by half. Reversing this trend requires not only the right le… read more
Effective financing for peacetime is a good investment of donors’ resources and a major factor in conflict prevention. Indeed, the UN reckons that if economic reconstruction fails, countries in the tr… read more
