Executive Summary Afghanistan has comparative and competitive strengths in the agriculture sector, particularly in the horticulture and livestock sub‐sectors, in which women are known to participate...
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Value Chain Governance and Gender: Saffron Production in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, the percentage of women involved in agricultural production is estimated at 65% of the agricultural workforce. Women carry out the bulk of the value-adding activities as domestic...
Remitance Corridor between the Netherlands and Afghanistan: An Overview
Acknowledgements This paper is based on a report prepared for the School of Governance, Maastricht University (the Netherlands) as part of a study on remitances between the Netherlands and...
Conflict and Entrepreneurial Activity in Afghanistan: Findings Based on 2005 NRVA Data
Despite the chronic conflict in Afghanistan over the years, anecdotal information points to sustained entrepreneurial actvity: a look around any major population center or some rural areas in...
Afghanistan: A Critical Assessment of Microfinance
INTRODUCTION Afghanistan has come out of a decades-long intermittent period of armed conflict which has severely limited the capacity and the ability of the state to provide services to meet even the...
Afghanistan: Sector Reform in Public Health, Education, and Urban Services Evidence from Kabul and Herat
1. INTRODUCTION Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the people of Afghanistan have had high expectations about gaining access to improved social services. However, despite high levels of foreign...
Afghanistan's Power Sector: Pipedreams or Workable Solutions?
1. INTRODUCTION The devastation caused by the decades-long conflict since the late 1970s has severely limited Afghanistan's capacity to provide energy through the conventional grid system which, at...