Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the … question of whether external intervention can assist weak or fragile states in successfully making the transition to stable … democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and Afghanistan are often considered together in analyses of state-building, and …

Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially …

high in Afghanistan, and especially so in regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this puzzle …

Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially …