This paper critically examines the shortcomings of post-conflict reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan from 2001 to …, neglected the importance of customary authority structures, and treated Afghanistan as a blank slate for experimentation. Such … messy realities of fostering legitimate governance in fragile contexts. The hard-earned lessons from Afghanistan's recent …

Afghanistan has been plagued by decades of conflict, but the last two decades' movements toward peace offer the … impact of foreign aid on Afghanistan's Human Development Index and its three core components from 1990 to 2019. We achieved … a driving force in attracting foreign aid. Looking at Afghanistan as a case study, we have observed a significant …

Afghanistan. ISAF units were given responsibility for specific operational units. The assignment of responsibilities to different …

the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Quasi-experimental evidence demonstrates that battlefield … casualties increase the news coverage of Afghanistan and the public demand for withdrawal. Evidence from a survey experiment …

We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development … functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically, we use several … economic development. We show that Afghanistan is caught in multiple development traps with entwined functioning, creating …