The report envisages significant, medium-term benefits for Afghanistan and its neighbors from trade policy … liberalization, from country-by-country reforms in trade logistics, and, especially within Afghanistan, from road rehabilitation and … the long-term vision for Afghanistan as a country moving toward middle-income status, based on sustainable development of …

. Afghanistan could derive far more benefit from its international trade opportunities than it does at present. This Diagnostics … the transaction costs of trade, increasing Afghanistan's competitiveness in world markets, and providing an analytical … foundation for Afghanistan's national trade strategy. The study examines how to do this, looking not only at trade performance …

Since 2002 one main focus of the international donor organizations active in Afghanistan has been to address the … necessity for closer trade ties between Afghanistan and Central Asian countries. The research sought to establish whether …