Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Summary Report

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Summary Report

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 9781451800272

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This Summary Report describes Afghanistan's Interim National Development Strategy (I-ANDS). It assesses the overall policy objectives, analyzes the context of and constraints to the achievement of those objectives, summarizes the government's key strategies and programs, and also reviews specific steps toward the implementation of the I-ANDS and the development of the full ANDS. It summarizes the government's proposed and ongoing sectoral programs and annual indicators against which progress may be measured. It also reviews the strategic plans developed by government line ministries and commissions.


Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Joint Staff Advisory Note

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Joint Staff Advisory Note

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Published: 2006-07-11

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13: 9781451800296

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This paper provides an initial comprehensive framework for Afghanistan to build institutions, sustain growth, and reduce poverty. First, macroeconomic, political, and security risks were identified. As the interim strategy presents a very ambitious five-year framework, there is an urgent need for prioritization. The lack of human resources is the major constraint. The investments proposed for agriculture and rural development show a strong commitment to rural areas and to supporting the private sector. The government needs a realistic timeline to complete the Afghanistan National Development Strategy.


Aid Paradoxes in Afghanistan

Aid Paradoxes in Afghanistan

Author: Nematullah Bizhan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-08-14

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1351692658

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The relationship between aid and state building is highly complex and the effects of aid on weak states depend on donors’ interests, aid modalities and the recipient’s pre-existing institutional and socio-political conditions. This book argues that, in the case of Afghanistan, the country inherited conditions that were not favourable for effective state building. Although some of the problems that emerged in the post-2001 state building process were predictable, the types of interventions that occurred—including an aid architecture which largely bypassed the state, the subordination of state building to the war on terror, and the short horizon policy choices of donors and the Afghan government—reduced the effectiveness of the aid and undermined effective state building. By examining how foreign aid affected state building in Afghanistan since the US militarily intervened in Afghanistan in late 2001 until the end of President Hamid Karzai’s first term in 2009, this book reveals the dynamic and complex relations between the Afghan government and foreign donors in their efforts to rebuild state institutions. The work explores three key areas: how donors supported government reforms to improve the taxation system, how government reorganized the state’s fiscal management system, and how aid dependency and aid distribution outside the government budget affected interactions between state and society. Given that external revenue in the form of tribute, subsidies and aid has shaped the characteristics of the state in Afghanistan since the mid-eighteenth century, this book situates state building in a historical context. This book will be invaluable for practitioners and anyone studying political economy, state building, international development and the politics of foreign aid.


Popular Governance of Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Popular Governance of Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Author: Matthew Saul

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-07-24

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1107055318

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How can a population influence decision-making on post-conflict reconstruction? This book explores the international legal framework for post-conflict popular governance.


Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781451800265

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The report describes the policy framework for the Interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy (I-ANDS) and the vision for Afghanistan's developments. It reviews the progress under I-ANDS, analyzes the macroeconomic environment, characteristics of poverty and the policy goals, assesses the national budgeting framework through which the I-ANDS will be integrated into Afghanistan's financial planning mechanisms to ensure both fiscal sustainability and financial independence, and also summarizes how government policies and programs will be transparently monitored, coordinated, refined, and revised in the full ANDS.


Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

Author: Roger Mac Ginty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 113508212X

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This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term ‘peacebuilding’, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term ‘peacebuilding’ has had remarkable staying power. Other terms, such as ‘conflict resolution’ have waned in popularity, while the acceptance and use of the term ‘peacebuilding’ has grown to the extent that it is the hegemonic and over-arching term for many forms of mediation, reconciliation and strategies to induce peace. Despite this, however, it is rarely defined and often used to mean different things to different audiences. Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding aims to be a one-stop comprehensive resource on the literature and practices of contemporary peacebuilding. The book is organised into six key sections: Section 1: Reading peacebuilding Section 2: Approaches and cross-cutting themes Section 3: Disciplinary approaches to peacebuilding Section 4: Violence and security Section 5: Everyday living and peacebuilding Section 6: The infrastructure of peacebuilding This new Handbook will be essential reading for students of peacebuilding, mediation and post-conflict reconstruction, and of great interest to students of statebuilding, intervention, civil wars, conflict resolution, war and conflict studies and IR in general.


Policy Solutions for Economic Growth in a Developing Country

Policy Solutions for Economic Growth in a Developing Country

Author: Nassir Ul Haq Wani

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2024-06-17

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1837534306

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Perspectives on Afghanistan’s Trade and Development offers a rich and varied policy analysis for those who wish to design a policy to bolster exports from Afghanistan, and for academicians, researchers and students who wish to gain greater insight into this developing economy.


Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Author: Geoffrey Hayes

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2009-08-04

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1554586984

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Many have questioned the wisdom of the international intervention in Afghanistan in light of the escalation of violence and instability in the country in the past few years. Particularly uncertain are Canadians, who have been inundated with media coverage of an increasingly dirty war in southern Afghanistan, one in which Canadians are at the frontline and suffering heavy casualties. However, the conflict is only one aspect of Afghanistan’s complicated, and incomplete, political, economic, and security transition. In Afghanistan: Transition under Threat, leading Afghanistan scholars and practitioners paint a full picture of the situation in Afghanistan and the impact of international and particularly Canadian assistance. They review the achievements of the reconstruction process and outline future challenges, focusing on key issues like the narcotics trade, the Pakistan—Afghanistan bilateral relationship, the Taliban-led insurgency, and continuing endemic poverty. This collection provides new insight into the nature and state of Afghanistan’s post-conflict transition and illustrates the consequences of failure. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation


Rebuilding War-Torn States

Rebuilding War-Torn States

Author: Graciana del Castillo

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-09-25

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0191608106

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Post-conflict economic reconstruction is a critical part of the political economy of peacetime and one of the most important challenges in any peace-building or state-building strategy. After wars end, countries must negotiate a multi-pronged transition to peace: Violence must give way to public security; lawlessness, political exclusion, and violation of human rights must give way to the rule of law and participatory government; ethnic, religious, ideological, or class/caste confrontation must give way to national reconciliation; and ravaged and mismanaged war economies must be reconstructed and transformed into functioning market economies that enable people to earn a decent living. Yet, how can these vitally important tasks each be successfully managed? How should we go about rehabilitating basic services and physical and human infrastructure? Which policies and institutions are necessary to reactivate the economy in the short run and ensure sustainable development in the long run? What steps should countries take to bring about national reconciliation and the consolidation of peace? In all of these cases, unless the political objectives of peacetime prevail at all times, peace will be ephemeral, while policies that pursue purely economic objectives can have tragic consequences. This book argues that any strategy for post-conflict economic reconstruction must be based on five premises and examines specific post-conflict reconstruction experiences to identify not only where these premises have been disregarded, but also where policies have worked, and the specific conditions that have influenced their success and failure.