CGD's report on aid to Pakistan was mentioned in a Pakistan Observer article.
From the Article
The institutionalized incompetence in Pakistan has once again proved detrimental to the national interest and the well being as the exposition of reality of the aid and assistance being provided to Pakistan for assisting in the war against terror provides a brand new picture.
The popular western narrative has been instrumental in trumpeting the fact across both the Pakistani public and international community that it is Pakistan that stands to benefit from entering into the war on terror by being the recipient of the colossal US assistance. This has been reinforced in the minds of not only the uneducated masses- that Pakistan has in abundance- but also the educated elite and media people have been compelled to perceive that the US assistance brings nothing but profit without which the existence of the Pakistani state would be jeopardized.
Stemming from this very belief is the anxiety that grips every citizen at the mere mention of a closure to the US aid channels. The various talk shows and analysts with incomplete background argue against the notion of an essential operational paradigm that does not link itself with the assistance that we have come to rely upon so completely and entirely. That it is in our communal and eternal good to serve the US interest for a meager amount thrown towards us are mere crumbs that satiate only the hunger felt by our leaders.
Thus, the fact that we are being fed and brought up by the all encompassing economic presence of the United States is a fact that we have accepted with our eyes wide shut. This perception, however, shakes every time the Americans threaten to re-evaluate its significance based on its efficacy.
This can be exemplified by the fact that the western researchers and think tanks are continuously questioning the rationale of providing monetary aid to Pakistan for being a front state ally in the global war in South Asia.
A report by the Center for Global Development, a private Washington based think-tank, was released as more and more US lawmakers had started questioning aid to Pakistan after US forces discovered and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. It said “The United States should delay much of its multibillion-dollar package to Pakistan pending economic reforms as the aid has led to official inaction and public resentment”.