Strong economic growth during the pre-transition period of 2007-08 to 2011-12 did not reduce poverty and contributed instead to widening inequality in Afghanistan. According to the latest Afghanistan ...

Challenges for Afghanistan in 2025 include continuing human rights violations, economic instability and food insecurity; ...

World Bank and WFP reports reveal escalating poverty in Afghanistan, with 15.8 million people affected by food insecurity and economic challenges.

Officials from the directorate reported on Thursday, January 16 that as part of a campaign to gather beggars, 115 individuals ...

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries ... that more than 54% of the population were living below the national poverty line of 2,064 Afghanis per person per month (equivalent to about $ ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in early January that nearly 23 ...

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries ... that more than 54% of the population were living below the national poverty line of 2,064 Afghanis per person per month (equivalent to about $ ...

In 2010, 27.6 percent of Afghanistan’s urban population lived below the national poverty line, while, in 2005, almost 89 percent of the urban population lived in slums. An analysis of nighttime lights ...

4. When I first met him in 2002, he said, “Afghanistan is where all the woes of developing nations are concentrated.” He also noted that drought was at the root of poverty, armed conflict and ...

The takeover accelerated “Afghanistan’s decade-long slide into poverty”, UN News said, as it is among the countries with the lowest per capita income in the world. For now, the Taliban ...

Afghanistan was at war for more than 40 years ... the capital Kabul fell to Islamist rebels who now dominate the entire country. Poverty is omnipresent. Kalashnikovs and Taliban fighters as ...