South Asia is expected to remain the world’s fastest-growing region, thanks to robust growth in India. However, this strong outlook is deceptive. For most countries, growth is still below...
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This paper studies the effect of the 2018 drought on household consumption and poverty in Afghanistan, a semi-arid and conflict-affected country. The paper combines geolocated household data with remote-sensing weather data...
Highlights related to food security Economic context/access to food: Inflation is predominantly influenced by factors such as the exchange rate, international energy and food prices, and domestic demand...
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Consumer prices continue to decrease because of persistent economic weakness and reduced demand, prolonging the deflationary trend that began in April 2023. Half...
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According to the unofficial data from the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA),the year-on-year headline inflation is now at negative 2.83 percent as of May 2023—primarily driven by...
In this paper, we assess the long-term effect of floods on food security (as measured by calorie and micronutrient consumption) by applying an instrumental variable approach to data from the Afghanistan National...
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According to the data reported in the WoAA2022 shown in [3], 89 percent of households and 91 percent of Afghans had food expenditure lower than the nominal food poverty...
The political change after 15 August 2021 plunged the country into a humanitarian and economic crisis that devastated peoples’ lives and livelihoods.
As the De Facto Authorities (DFA) mark...
The economic recovery in South Asia continues, despite the ferocious resurgence of COVID-19 earlier this year. This recovery has not undone all the harm caused by the crisis, and targeted...
The current political uncertainty clouds the future macroeconomic pathways for Afghanistan. With limited data and the national economic policy in a state of flux, it is a challenge to provide full scale...