This report evaluates the outcomes of World Bank Group support to Afghanistan from 2002-11. Despite extremely difficult … highly relevant to Afghanistan’s situation, beginning in 2006 the strategies could have gone further in adapting ongoing … objectives, although risks to development outcomes remain high. Impressive results have been achieved in public financial …

"Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the … work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security …, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the extreme, in some cases better public finance management could …

sector but also in other sectors relevant to nutrition will gain increased support and prominence in national development … well being and a nation's long-term development is hard to underestimate. For the South Asia region of the World Bank …, malnutrition is a key development priority, and in the coming years, the Bank intends to enhance dramatically its response to this …

Afghanistan has come a long way since emerging from major conflict in late 2001. Important political milestones … extraordinary efforts to develop key national programs (for example public-works employment programs and community development …

This report is about how to progressively reduce over time Afghanistan's dependence on opium - currently the country …'s leading economic activity - by development initiatives and shifting economic incentives toward sustainable legal livelihoods …. Specifically, the report identifies additional investments and policy and institutional measures to support development responses …

priority agenda for action by the Government of Afghanistan (GOA) and the donor community. The report reviews the prospects and … administration reform in Afghanistan is both very important and very difficult: very important because it will provide the Government … o f Afghanistan with the capacity to respond to popular demands for good governance and improved service delivery; very …

Afghanistan's public financial management (PFM) system achieved significant improvements between June 2005 and December … countries for which Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments have been conducted, Afghanistan … between the budget and realization remains significant in the development budget expenditures. The comprehensiveness of the …