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Afghanistan Poverty Status Update : Progress at Risk.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Afghanistan Ministry of Economy.
- Series:
- Poverty Assessment
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access of Poor to Social Services.
- Analysis.
- Conflict.
- Conflict and Development.
- Finance.
- Inequality.
- Job Creation.
- Labor Market.
- Labor Markets.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Assessment.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Poverty Strategy, analysis and Monitoring.
- Skills Development and Labor Force Training.
- Social Protection and Risk Management.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Local Subjects:
- Access of Poor to Social Services.
- Analysis.
- Conflict.
- Conflict and Development.
- Finance.
- Inequality.
- Job Creation.
- Labor Market.
- Labor Markets.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Assessment.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Poverty Strategy, analysis and Monitoring.
- Skills Development and Labor Force Training.
- Social Protection and Risk Management.
- Social Protections & Assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Other Title:
- Afghanistan Poverty Status Update
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2017.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- A severe slow-down in Afghanistan's economic growth characterized the period between 2012 and 2014, the so called Transition period leading to the 2014 election and handover of security responsibility to Afghan forces. Afghanistan's economic malaise during this time can be attributed to the combined effects of the drawdown of international military forces and a sharp fall in associated international spending, reduction of aid, and increasing conflict and political instability. While aid fueled strong growth during the pre-transition period between 2007-2008 and 2011-2012, worrisome socio-economic dynamics already present intensified during the transition. Notably, the transition crisis magnified once again the many inequalities-between regions, cities and rural areas, rich and poor Afghans, and between men and women and girls and boys-that fracture Afghan society. The poorest and most vulnerable segments of the population benefited least from pre-transition growth, and the same groups suffered the most once the economy and the security condition deteriorated. This new edition of the Poverty Status Update series documents the evolution of poverty and socio-economic inclusion during the transition. It examines determinants of poverty and, with an eye beyond 2014, suggests policies to reduce vulnerability and inequalities.
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