Former Afghan vice president Ahmad Zia Massoud and development maven Christian Cooper present a plan to leverage Afghanistan’s mineral wealth to fund social and infrastructural development through a three-step process:
- Establishing transparent and accountable trust funds,
- Dedicating a portion of the proceeds (presumably received by the central government) that are derived from mineral concession fees to capitalize those trust funds,
- Issuing bonds that are backed by those trust funds to fund infrastructure development projects.