Afghanistan will experience a major security and development transition over the next three years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, the North Atlantic treaty organization and the Afghan government...
Afghanistan will experience a major security and development transition over the next three years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, NATO and the Afghan government agreed that full responsibility...
Afghanistan will experience a major security and development transition over the next three years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, NATO and the Afghan government agreed that full responsibility...
Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages...
Opium, Afghanistan's leading economic activity, lies at the heart of the challenges the country faces in state building, governance, security, and development. With their narrow law enforcement focus and...
This report is about how to progressively reduce over time Afghanistan's dependence on opium - currently the country's leading economic activity - by development initiatives and shifting economic incentives...
This paper assesses development policies and performance during the post-Taliban period in Afghanistan and also, based on lessons from experience, looks toward the future. It covers economic management...
The size of the global illicit drug industry and its direct and indirect costs are very large and worthy of serious attention from both research and policy perspectives. The adverse development effects...
This paper lays out the big issues that affect regional cooperation and development in the wider Central Asia region, and analyzes in greater detail areas where there appear to be good prospects for progress...
The workshop was intended to explore and address the issue of opium credit and indebtedness as well as the development of rural finance more generally and the role of national development programs in this...
This paper analyzes the linkages between drugs and development in Afghanistan. It argues that the opium economy-including its nexus with insecurity, warlords, state weakness, and poor governance-constitutes...
In conditions of lawlessness and impoverishment, opium has become Afghanistan's leading economic activity, accounting for one third of (opium inclusive) GDP in 2003, and even more so in 2004. The opium...
This report briefly surveys Afghanistan's economy--during pre-war times, the long-drawn out war of Soviet occupation and the subsequent internecine conflict, the mid-1990's in areas that were largely conflict-free...
State-owned industrial enterprises in China underwent far-reaching changes during the 1980s. Reforms altered the operating environment, financial arrangements, business and administrative relationships...
The emergence and recent rapid growth of rural nonagricultural enterprises (township, village and private enterprises - TVPs) in China is a striking and in many ways unique phenomenon. Almost overnight...
This report was prepared principally by members of an economic mission that visited China twice in 1984, for four weeks in February-March and for five weeks in April-May. This report looks at some of the...
This case study focuses on the serious problems faced by a large Chinese nonferrous metals smelter and how the plant responded to them. The most important problems were an increasingly disadvantageous...