u.s. foreign aid to pakistan 2007

Posted on September 7, 2008 by alaskanlibrarian

A search engine visitor came looking for the amount of US foreign aid given to Pakistan in 2007. While that figure is not yet available, I can tell him or her that Pakistan received 643 million dollars in economic assistance and 299 million dollars in military assistance in 2006.

These figures came from the US Agency for International Development’s Overseas Loans and Grants book, also know as the “Green Book.” The book is available online at http://qesdb.cdie.org/gbk/index.html and provides great detail on what countries are receiving what kind of assistance. To get the report on Pakistan, I chose “historical dollars”, then “country reports” and then selected Pakistan from the “Asia” country list. I suspect that the 2007 figures will be available in 2009.

If you’re specifically looking for official information on US-Pakistan military cooperation, check out the US Central Command’s page on Pakistan at http://www.centcom.mil/en/countries/aor/pakistan/.

This would have been a good question for the fine librarians at Government Information Online or for your local Federal Depository Library.

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  1. zahid Shah, on October 28th, 2008 at 2:20 pm Said:

    Note: Your comment was edited because it is a copyright violation to reproduce an entire copyrighted article as a comment. I have linked to the article you posted. – Daniel

    From Center for American Progress
    U.S. Aid to Pakistan by the Numbers
    A Pakistani family eats dinner next to their hut on the outskirts of Islamabad. Only half of the country’s population can secure an adequate nutritional intake.
    August 21, 2008
    http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/pakistan_aid_numbers.html

    The history of U.S. assistance to Pakistan follows a predictable script: aid is tied to security imperatives that come and go, while the country’s political and economic well-being is effectively ignored. As an early ally in the cold war, Pakistan received nearly $2 billion from 1953 to 1961, a quarter of which was military assistance. The United States then suspended assistance during the Indo-Pakistan wars and following Pakistan’s construction of a uranium enrichment facility in 1979. Pakistan remerged as an ally in the 1980s during the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan and was again the recipient of aid. But following the withdrawal of Soviet troops in the late 1980s, assistance to Pakistan took another nosedive.

    Following 9/11, Pakistan became a U.S. ally once more, and unsurprisingly, almost all of the aid provided since has gone to military operations. By failing to commit to the long-term health of the Pakistani state, successive generations of U.S. policymakers have convinced many in Pakistan, both in and out of government, that we are a demanding power with little interest in their own security, rather than a genuine partner. Increasing political and economic instability and the failure of a military-centric approach to check growing violence demonstrate that the Pakistani people need more than military assistance to improve stability in their country.

    For the rest of the articles, including specific aid figures, please see http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/pakistan_aid_numbers.html.

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