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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Main Author:	Rocha, Nadia
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	TRADE VIOLENCE CONFLICT TRANSITION FINANCE GROWTH
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

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spelling	okr-10986-288802021-05-25T09:07:30Z Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities Rocha, Nadia TRADE VIOLENCE CONFLICT TRANSITION FINANCE GROWTH 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. 2017-11-15T23:29:37Z 2017-11-15T23:29:37Z 2017 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/682381509958023712/Trade-as-a-vehicle-for-growth-in-Afghanistan-challenges-and-opportunities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28880 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper South Asia Afghanistan
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description	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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author	Rocha, Nadia
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title	Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities
title_short	Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities
title_full	Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities
title_fullStr	Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities
title_full_unstemmed	Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities
title_sort	trade as a vehicle for growth in afghanistan : challenges and opportunities
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/682381509958023712/Trade-as-a-vehicle-for-growth-in-Afghanistan-challenges-and-opportunities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28880
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Trade as a Vehicle for Growth in Afghanistan : Challenges and Opportunities

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