linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the … programs. -- Afghanistan ; food security ; conflict ; nutrition ; poverty ; spatial distribution …

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR … distributions suggest that policy analyses relying solely on OLS estimates may be misleading. -- Afghanistan ; food prices ; wheat …

extent, Afghanistan has successfully managed the immediate challenges resulting from the transition. It has maintained …

The Afghanistan Development Update is a twice-annual publication providing analysis of recent developments and … topics address: i) the potential for trade to underpin development in Afghanistan; ii) recent trends in poverty and welfare …; and iii) priorities for improving education quality and coverage. Afghanistan has experienced slow growth since 2014, with …

Afghanistan faced severe economic headwinds in 2018, with the economy growing by an estimated 1.8 percent. Slow growth …

Afghanistan currently faces a sea of uncertainty. Outcomes of the September 2019 presidential elections are not yet …

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment … reduces the disparity in test scores. The intervention increases formal school enrollment by 42 percentage points among all …). -- Afghanistan ; RCT ; education ; gender …

Security and development remain inextricably linked in Afghanistan, with the poor security environment continuing to … to have a positive impact on Afghanistan's economic development, including Afghanistan's accession to the World Trade …

The Afghanistan Development Update, which is published twice a year, provides a comprehensive report of the state of … the Afghan economy. It covers recent economic developments and outlines the medium-term outlook for Afghanistan …. Afghanistan. Each edition includes a section that provides in-depth analysis on one or more specific focus topics. The lack of …