The Business of Peace
Why Entrepreneurship and Business Climate Reform Should Be the Centerpiece of Peace-Building Operations
Mauro De Lorenzo | Royal United Services Institute
September 04, 2008
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Resident Fellow Mauro De Lorenzo
Resident Fellow
Mauro De Lorenzo
International post-conflict administrators rarely have a strategy for economic growth. They tend to focus on humanitarian action, politics, and security, usually in that order. What could be more urgent?

Each of these tasks is seen as a crucial part of the state-building project. Accordingly, administrators privilege the public sector over the private sector, which has no address and no spokesman. The state, on the other hand, is easy to find and is usually in desperate shape. Restoring the state to health--principally as demonstrated by its ability to absorb foreign aid--can quite naturally come to be seen as the beginning and the end of peace-building. . . .

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Mauro De Lorenzo is a resident fellow at AEI.

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Mauro
De Lorenzo
  • Mauro De Lorenzo studies private sector-based approaches to development in post-conflict and post-Socialist countries, focusing on reforms that have made some developing countries attractive to foreign and domestic investment. He also researches Chinese investment and political influence outside the Pacific region, particularly in Africa; the design of policies that promote democratic accountability in aid-receiving countries; and refugee and humanitarian policy.
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    Email: mauro.delorenzo@aei.org
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