Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities
With further declines in international assistance expected over the coming years, the government of Afghanistan faces a new challenge of enabling new growth drivers. One such driver is trade. Decades of civil war and military occupation that culmin...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/682381509958023712/Trade-as-a-vehicle-for-growth-in-Afghanistan-challenges-and-opportunities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28880 |
| Summary: | With further declines in international
assistance expected over the coming years, the government of
Afghanistan faces a new challenge of enabling new growth
drivers. One such driver is trade. Decades of civil war and
military occupation that culminated in the fall of the
Taliban in 2001, have devastated Afghanistan. High levels of
conflict destroyed infrastructure, displaced a significant
share of the population, incentivized informal and illicit
economic activities, and jeopardized the delivery of public
services. Trade could be an important channel for
accelerating growth in Afghanistan. A plausible trade-driven
growth scenario for Afghanistan should promote economic and
export diversification. This report brings new evidence on
the opportunities and challenges for development in the
areas of trade in goods, trade in services, and transit
trade. It also provides recommendations for an appropriate
sequencing of policy reforms and strategic infrastructure
investment to support potential growth in these sectors. The
main findings of this report suggest that government
intervention should focus on two complementary areas of
competitiveness and connectivity. |
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