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Afghanistan
A year after the Taliban barred women from universities, many remain bereft of options
Jan 2, 2024
The World Bank has warned the ban on educating women will hurt the country’s prospects for economic growth.
2 years after fall of Kabul, thousands of Afghan refugees are stuck in legal limbo
Jun 8, 2023
Many Afghan refugees are in the U.S. as parolees, without a clear path to citizenship. Their parole is set to expire within months.
The costs of banning women from education in Afghanistan are felt everywhere
Jan 6, 2023
The World Bank estimates the costs of not educating girls through high school is between $15 and $30 trillion dollars in lost lifetime productivity and earnings. But the costs go beyond the financial.
After Trump-era cuts, refugee agencies have rebuilt to accommodate evacuating Afghans
Nov 10, 2022
Trump Administration-era cuts scaled back refugee programs, but the resettlement of 88,000 Afghans prompted them to ramp up and expand.
How to revive Afghanistan's economy? Taliban reforms, country's ex-central bank says.
Aug 16, 2022
About $7 billion in Afghan Central Bank assets remain frozen in the U.S. Could those funds be used to relieve the country's humanitarian crisis?
What is the current state of Afghanistan's economy?
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Richard Cunningham
Feb 23, 2022
Afghanistan was on the precipice of a humanitarian disaster, and it fell off that precipice, said Madiha Afzal at the Brookings Institution.
How Afghanistan's money exchangers "grease the economy"
by
Kai Ryssdal
Sep 23, 2021
The informal network of exchangers are making money available in ways banks can't, says Cambridge research fellow Nafay Choudhury.
For public good, not for profit.
What Taliban rule has meant for an Afghan American, personally and professionally
by
Amy Scott
and Andie Corban
Sep 20, 2021
Homa Sorouri spent years working with international aid organizations in Afghanistan. It's "dreadful," she said, to see the work they did disappear.
The tech economy needs minerals and metals, and Afghanistan has got a lot of them
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Anais Amin
Sep 3, 2021
Journalist and book author Guillaume Pitron explains the barriers to getting those minerals out of the ground and putting them to use.
The Taliban lacks the skill to run an economy, expert says
Sep 1, 2021
Afghanistan's economy needs the help of regional forces and countries, economist Asad Ejaz Butt says.