Investment in agriculture and ensuring equitable access to opportunities and services could help reduce poverty. Strong economic growth during the pre-transition period of 2007-08 to 2011-12 did not ...

This report comes amid concerns about Afghanistan’s economic survival. The United Nations reports that 22 million Afghans rely on humanitarian aid, showing the country’s deep economic struggles.

The fast-paced equestrian game of buzkashi is a welcome distraction in rural Afghanistan, blighted by drought and poverty, ...

with thousands of people affected by the dual challenges of poverty and a lack of accessible healthcare. Zahir, who traveled over 130 km from Bamiyan province to Kabul for his daughter's treatment ...

On Aug. 15, 2021, the capital Kabul fell to Islamist rebels who now dominate the entire country. Poverty is omnipresent. Kalashnikovs and Taliban fighters as well. Why would anyone choose to ...

KABUL, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- An iron-smelting plant worth 200 million U.S. dollars will be opened in Maidan Shar city, the capital of eastern Afghanistan's Wardak province, the state-owned Bakhtar news ...