The political and security transition continues to take a heavy toll on Afghanistan’s economy. Economic growth is … outlook for 2015 remains weak. Afghanistan faces the dual challenge of restoring confidence in its economic prospects and … Conference on Afghanistan in December 2014. The paper presents the government’s plans for tackling corruption and building better …

Afghanistan's economic problems are often assumed to stem solely from the internal warfare that began in 1978. Is this … assumption correct? I consider this question by comparing Afghanistan from 1961 to 2006 with Pakistan (a neighboring country with … labor productivity growth and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth. I find Afghanistan fell behind Pakistan …

-specific. For India and China, Afghanistan has been a grey area. Being positioned at the heart of Asia, Afghanistan directly … joint relations in Afghanistan. It would be interesting to observe the rationale behind their renewed engagement and either … a comprehensive and comparative analysis of India and China's policy in Afghanistan after 9/11. In which this article …

Sustainable peace in Afghanistan requires regional economic transformation, which will provide alternative forms of … livelihood and promote accountability. It is hoped that all of Afghanistan's neighbours will abide by the Kabul Declaration and …

succinctly summarize the climate risks faced by Afghanistan. This includes rapid onset and long-term changes in key climate …. This is a high-level synthesis of existing research and analyses, focusing on the geographic domain of Afghanistan …

Afghanistan is confronting the Covid-19 pandemic and its socioeconomic fallout amid rising insecurity. Supported by … withdrawal of their troops by September. In a strong sign of support for Afghanistan's development and reforms, donors pledged …

The Country Opinion Survey in Afghanistan assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how … stakeholders in Afghanistan perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments …, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Afghanistan on 1) their views regarding …

repatriated to their country of origin in this century. Between 2002 and 2016, over six million refugees returned to Afghanistan …-scale internal displacement and return from outside have strained the delivery of public services in Afghanistan and increased … contributing to our understanding of displacement in Afghanistan by comparing the socioeconomic profiles of three populations: (i …

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

This is the first Economic Report on Afghanistan by the World Bank in a quarter-century. It is intended to contribute … implementation. State-building, discussed in Chapter 4, lies at the core of Afghanistan's reconstruction as well as progress on … engine of growth and poverty reduction in Afghanistan. Agriculture, covered in Chapter 6, comprises half of the economy and …