Afghanistan--state building, sustaining growth, and reducing poverty.

Afghanistan--state building, sustaining growth, and reducing poverty.

Afghanistan has come a long way since emerging from major conflict in late 2001. The economy has recovered strongly, growing by nearly 50% cumulatively in the last two years (not including drugs). Some three million internally and externally displaced Afghans have returned to their country. More tha...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Corporate Author: World Bank
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2005
Series:World Bank country study.
Subjects:
Afghanistan > Economic conditions.
Afghanistan > Politics and government > 2001-2021.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Executive Summary
  • 1. The Afghan Economy
  • Recent Economic Performance
  • Structure of the Economy
  • Economic Prospects
  • 2. Poverty in Afghanistan: A Preliminary Analysis
  • Historical Background and Social Indicators
  • Rural Poverty Profile
  • Determinants of Rural Poverty
  • 3. Toward Sustained Growth and Poverty Reduction
  • Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy
  • Implementation Priorities and Risks
  • 4. Building an Effective, Accountable Afghan State
  • The State-Building Agenda
  • Work in Progress.
  • Some Key Tasks Ahead
  • The Way Forward
  • 5. Encouraging and Supporting Private Sector Development
  • The Afghan Private Sector
  • Constraints to Private Sector Development
  • Government Strategy and Implementation Priorities
  • 6. Agricultural Development Priorities and Prospects
  • Overview and Policy Framework
  • Priority Areas for Reform
  • Prospects for Afghan Agriculture
  • 7. Understanding and Responding to the Drug Economy
  • The Opium Economy in Afghanistan
  • Lessons from Experience in Fighting Drugs
  • Government's National Drug Control Strategy.
  • Options and Trade-Offs in Strategy Implementation
  • 8. Delivering Basic Social Services with Gender Equity
  • Background
  • Conceptual Framework
  • Improving Basic Social Service Delivery in Key Sectors
  • 9. Assisting the Poor and Vulnerable
  • Poverty, Vulnerability, and Coping Mechanisms
  • Government Strategy and Programs
  • Toward a Broad-based, Effective, Sustainable Social Protection Policy
  • 10. Priorities for Action, Challenges, Prospects, and Risks
  • Statistical Appendix
  • References
  • Map
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • 1.1 Macroeconomic Indicators
  • 2.1 Social Indicators 2003.
  • 3.1 National Priority Programs
  • 3.2 Structural Reforms
  • 3.3 Prices, Wages and Exchange Rates
  • 4.1 General Pay Levels (Afs/month)
  • 4.2 Examples of Accountability Mechanisms in Proposed Laws
  • 4.3 SY1382 Budget Execution
  • 4.4 Domestic Revenues
  • 4.5 Revenues (% of GDP)
  • 4.6 Economic Activities and Probable Associations with Corruption
  • 4.7 Priorities for Reducing Administrative Corruption
  • 4.8 Options for Enhancing Capacities within Government
  • 5.1 The Enterprise Spectrum
  • 5.2 Infrastructure in Afghanistan and Selected Other Countries.
  • 5.3 Priority Areas for Support to the Private Sector
  • 6.1 Agricultural Growth Rates (percent per annum)
  • 6.2 Livestock Population Per Family
  • 6.3 Regional Composition of Surface Water Resources and Irrigated Area
  • 6.4 Estimated Irrigation Potential in Afghanistan
  • 6.5 Estimated Rates of Return to Investment in Agricultural Research
  • 7.1 Estimated Opium Cultivation, Production, and Incomes 1995-2004
  • 8.1 Public Service and Social Indicators
  • 8.2 Rural Households' Access to Basic Services
  • 8.3 Institutions and Accountability in Selected Services in Afghanistan.

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