The communities of Baraki Barak District in Logar Province inaugurated 16 uplift projects of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development MRRD.
The projects that included construction and graveling of 11km rural road, digging of 14 water wells, construction of 26 culverts, cleaning of 4.4km Karez and installation of 121 solar panels were implemented in [...]
Kabul, Monday, January 28, 2008: Private investment is expected to rise in 2008 despite a fall last year. This was announced by Dr. Zakhilwal, the President of Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) in a press conference on January 28, 2008 at AISA Headquarter. The conference, which was attended by a large group of Kabul-based media [...]
Beyond headlines that are increasingly dominated by the Taliban’s strengthening insurgency, there is some good economic news coming out of Afghanistan.
Buoyed by strong year-on-year growth in foreign direct investment, Afghanistan has been enjoying double-digit growth since 2002. The World Bank predicts that in 2008, the GDP growth rate could reach 13 percent.
Robust growth, it must [...]
The first distance learning video, produced by the Educational Radio and Television (ERTV), was recently demonstrated to representatives of the Italian Government, UNESCO and other participants during a presentation organized by ERTV. This video shows a third grade Dari language class, on the topic “Honesty and Lying”. The lesson is taught by a female teacher [...]
More and more Dutch companies plan to increase their presence in post-war
Afghanistan through their operations in Dubai.
The Dutch economic mission to Dubai is organising a round-table conference
on January 22 to help network Dutch companies interested in doing business
in Afghanistan with their Afghani counterparts.
The conference will be attended by a delegation of 15 high-profile [...]
The World Bank today approved a US$30 million grant to scale up the outreach of financial services from Afghanistan’s successful microfinance service providers which have already provided for the financial needs and demands of many poor Afghans, especially women, in most of the provinces of Afghanistan.
The Expanding Microfinance Outreach and Improving Sustainability Project will improve [...]