Professor Tarek Ghani has devoted himself to studying how digital technologies can improve the lives of the most vulnerable citizens of fragile states, including especially Afghanistan. In this provocative interview, he describes how deepening our understanding of how the targeted recipients of aid with information that the aid is sitting in their mobile-money accounts increases its uptake from 40% to an astonishing 99%. In other work, he shows how and why conflict arises at the periphery of industrial mines of Africa, and what local governments can do to address it.

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