Afghanistan help coming too slowly, for too few: report

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Afghans are praising changes in their country since the US-led invasion in 2001 but think improvements are coming too slowly and for too few people, a study by a Washington think tank found.
It said reconstruction from the latest fighting and almost continual civil turmoil of the last decade of the 20th century is being hampered largely by corrupt and predatory local officials in President Hamid Karzai's government.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies said the study, Voices of a New Afghanistan, released yesterday, represented "an integrated method to measure progress in stabilization and reconstruction ... that draws heavily on ordinary citizens' perceptions of progress and where their country is heading."

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