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Opium for the masses?: conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove; Willumsen, Fredrik - 2009

We show that the recent rise in Afghan opium production is caused by violent conflicts. Violence destroys roads and irrigation, crucial to alternative crops, and weakens local incentives to rebuild infrastructure and enforce law and order. Exploiting a unique data set, we show that Western...

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Opium for the masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan

Lind, Jo Thori; Moene, Karl Ove - 2009

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275898

Income and happiness in Afghanistan: Do insecurity and violence matter?

Asadi, Mohammad H.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023

We examine the relationship between household income and happiness in Afghanistan and the moderating roles of fear of … provinces in Afghanistan. Employing fixed effects ordered logit regressions, our results reveal a positive association between …

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Crop diversification increased household welfare in Afghanistan (2011-2017)

Ahmadzai, Hayatullah; Morrissey, Oliver - 2023

food expenditure and dietary diversity, in Afghanistan. A multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) with …

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Strained alliances : Iran's troubled relations to Afghanistan and Pakistan

Christensen, Janne Bjerre - 2011

This report offers a critical examination of Iran's influence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Two points are made: that …. Secondly, that Iran's engagements in Afghanistan are clearly guided by the presence of the US. Iran's predominant interest is … in stabilizing Afghanistan, but as long as Afghanistan is neither safe nor stable, Iran will play a double game and …