Afghanistan - Publications and Reports

Ending Centuries of Isolation in Rural Afghanistan: Rural roads are critical for improving the lives of the Afghan people, the vast majority of whom live in near isolation in rugged mountain villages that cling to steep hillsides or nestle in remote valleys in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world.

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- Afghanistan Economic Update - Dec 10
- Ending Centuries of Isolation - Nov 10
- Afghanistan Poverty Status - Nov 10
- Mining for Sustainable Growth - Nov 10
- Better Communications for a Better Future - Sept 10
- New Irrigation Jumpstarts Farming, and Incomes - Sept 10
- Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination - Jul 10
- National Solidarity Program, Progress in Afghanistan - Jun 10
- South Asia Economic Outlook: Moving Up, Looking East - Jun 10
- Afghanistan Public Expenditure Review - Jun 10
- Low-Tech Aid Monitoring - Jun 10
- Reviving Rural Enterprises - Mar 10
- Global Trade Logistics - Mar 10
- Afghan Girls’ Schools - Feb 10
- Promoting Cooperation in South Asia - Feb 10
- Has South Asia Escaped the Worst Effects of the Financial Crisis - Feb 10
- Promoting Second Generation Expenditure Reviews - Jan 10
- Violence in Girls’ Schools - Jan 10
- Shared Views on Climate Change - Dec 09
- South Asia Ecosystems on the Brink - Dec 09
- Afghanistan Investment Climate in 2008 - Nov 09
- Job Creation in South Asia - Oct 09
- Fighting Corruption in Afghanistan (pdf) - Jul 09
- Finance and Security in Afghanistan - Apr 09
- Getting Finance in South Asia - Mar 09
- Better Reproductive Health for Poor Women - Mar 09
- HIV and AIDS: An Economic Development Risk - Mar 09
- Subnational Expenditures in Afghanistan, Aug 08
- Afghanistan: Building an Effective State, Ju 08
- Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production, Feb 08
- Afghanistan: Public Sector Accounting and Auditing, Oct 07
- Afghanistan: Service Delivery and Governance at the Sub-National Level, Jul 07
- Interim Strategy Note, Jan 07
- Afghanistan's Drug Industry and Counter-Narcotics Policy, Nov 06
- Managing Kabul's growth, Jun 06
- The role of women in Afghanistan's future, Apr 06
- Economic cooperation in the wider Central Asia region, Apr 06
- Investment Climate improves, many challenges remain, Feb 06
- Managing Public Finances crucial for Afghanistan development Jan 06
- Hill International and Gustavson Reports Oil and Gas Infrastructure Sep 05
- Poverty and Vulnerability challenge development efforts, Mar 05
- State Building, poverty reduction and growth in Afghanistan, Feb 05

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- Afghanistan Economic Indicators (pdf)

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