Despite record economic growth for more than a decade, poverty has remained stubbornly high in Afghanistan, especially …

of the National Solidarity Program, a community-driven development program in Afghanistan that created democratically …

candidates. Results from a unique field experiment in Afghanistan are consistent with these predictions. Specifically …

The paper uses a detailed household survey to document precautionary wealth accumulation in Afghanistan, with wealth …

This paper investigates the state of low investment in Afghanistan by studying how investment decisions interact with …

Opium, Afghanistan's leading economic activity, lies at the heart of the challenges the country faces in state building …, and political implications, current global counter-narcotics polices impose a heavy burden on Afghanistan. This paper … first provides a summary overview of Afghanistan's opium economy and the factors determining rural households' decisions on …

Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …

nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. It uses a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile …

activity using mobile phone metadata. Using Afghanistan as the empirical setting, the analysis combines mobile phone data from … private sector in Afghanistan responds to insecurity. The findings indicate that firms reduce presence in districts following …