Decades of conflict destroyed much of Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure, including its road network. Rehabilitation and upgrading of the country’s roads and highways is improving access to markets, enabling private investment, and expanding foreign trade—all key to Afghanistan’s further economic progress.
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The 2007 Afghanistan Human Development Report ranks the country as one of the poorest in the world, and the poorest nation in the entire Asia and Pacific region. Despite significant security and development since the 2001 ouster of the former Taliban regime, the people of Afghanistan continue to suffer widespread insecurity; weak governance; inadequate healthcare, education, and other public service; and gender inequality.
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The Country Strategy and Program (CSP) is prepared in active consultation with developing member country stakeholders: the government, NGOs, civil society groups, the private sector and other development agencies. It is usually prepared once every five years. A CSP update is prepared every year to reflect any important country developments and adjustments to the program. CSP contents are:
• Recent Political and Social Developments
• Economic Assessment and Outlook
• Implications for t more...
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Behavioral scientists have devoted considerable attention to religious extremism and the psychological factors that contribute to an individual’s propensity toward violence. However, relatively little data are available on those who abandon extremism and become proponents of conciliation and peace. This Special report of Dr. Renee Garfinkel offers a number of tentative conclusions about individuals she has interviewed who have made this transition.
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The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) is an independent research organization headquartered in Kabul. AREU's mission is to conduct high-quality research that informs and influences policy and practice. Read Newsletter of Number 17, April 2008.
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Afghanistan has now laid the foundation for a market-based economy. A new economic system, based on the state as a regulator, not a producer, of goods, with a clear separation between the public and private sectors, stands in place of the centralized economy of the past. An independent central bank, a liberalized foreign exchange system, and laws permitting foreigners to wholly own property characterize the new economic landscape. A doubling of the gross national product and per capita income, a more...
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The inadvertent killing of Afghans by U.S. and NATO forces undermines the international community’s efforts to stabilize Afghanistan and has resulted in a decline in approval and support for international military forces in the country. While the U.S. is in its seventh year of intervention in Afghanistan, the insurgency continues to grow. From 2002 to 2006, insurgent-initiated attacks increased by 400 percent and deaths resulting from these attacks jumped by 800 percent.
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