Afghanistan Development Update, November 2017

Afghanistan Development Update, November 2017

Afghanistan’s security environment is continuing to deteriorate. The increased conflict appears to be holding back business and consumer confidence from recovering fully from the impact of the security transition in 2014. Economic growth has increa...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
FISCAL TRENDS
MONETARY POLICY
EXTERNAL TRADE
RESILIENCE
SERVICE DELIVERY
HEALTH SERVICES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/520971510669112194/Afghanistan-development-update
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28928
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spelling okr-10986-289282021-05-25T10:54:40Z Afghanistan Development Update, November 2017 World Bank ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FISCAL TRENDS MONETARY POLICY EXTERNAL TRADE RESILIENCE SERVICE DELIVERY HEALTH SERVICES Afghanistan’s security environment is continuing to deteriorate. The increased conflict appears to be holding back business and consumer confidence from recovering fully from the impact of the security transition in 2014. Economic growth has increased moderately from 2014-15, when the lowest growth rate was recorded since 2003. Proxy data for the first half of 2017 indicates that economic activity is continuing to languish, while business sentiment, gauged from the quarterly business perception surveys, appears to have improved slightly between the first and second quarters of 2017, though it remains lower than in the second quarter of 2016. The annual economic growth rate is projected to reach 2.6 percent in 2017, increasing very slightly from the figure of 2.2 percent recorded in 2016. Growth is projected to edge up to 3.2 percent in 2018, assuming no further deterioration in the security environment. While this constitutes a moderate improvement compared to 2014 and 2015, it is still significantly below the 9.6 percent average annual rate recorded in the period from 2003 to 2012. 2017-12-01T20:51:02Z 2017-12-01T20:51:02Z 2017-11 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/520971510669112194/Afghanistan-development-update http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28928 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Economic Updates and Modeling Economic & Sector Work South Asia Afghanistan
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topic ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
FISCAL TRENDS
MONETARY POLICY
EXTERNAL TRADE
RESILIENCE
SERVICE DELIVERY
HEALTH SERVICES
spellingShingle ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
FISCAL TRENDS
MONETARY POLICY
EXTERNAL TRADE
RESILIENCE
SERVICE DELIVERY
HEALTH SERVICES
World Bank
Afghanistan Development Update, November 2017
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description Afghanistan’s security environment is continuing to deteriorate. The increased conflict appears to be holding back business and consumer confidence from recovering fully from the impact of the security transition in 2014. Economic growth has increased moderately from 2014-15, when the lowest growth rate was recorded since 2003. Proxy data for the first half of 2017 indicates that economic activity is continuing to languish, while business sentiment, gauged from the quarterly business perception surveys, appears to have improved slightly between the first and second quarters of 2017, though it remains lower than in the second quarter of 2016. The annual economic growth rate is projected to reach 2.6 percent in 2017, increasing very slightly from the figure of 2.2 percent recorded in 2016. Growth is projected to edge up to 3.2 percent in 2018, assuming no further deterioration in the security environment. While this constitutes a moderate improvement compared to 2014 and 2015, it is still significantly below the 9.6 percent average annual rate recorded in the period from 2003 to 2012.
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title Afghanistan Development Update, November 2017
title_short Afghanistan Development Update, November 2017
title_full Afghanistan Development Update, November 2017
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