Afghanistan's recent economic growth has been impressive. Macroeconomic performance also seems satisfactory. However, GDP per capita is very low. Poverty remains widespread. Afghanistan's social development...
Afghanistan has made progress building an effective expenditure management framework over the past several years. This Annex reviews this achievement but also identifies key challenges going forward. One...
Strong demand for education results in financing pressures. There was limited investment in education in Afghanistan over the past few decades. By 2001, slightly more than one million students were enrolled...
Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP) are major actors in the security sector. The security sector in Afghanistan consists of defense, internal security, intelligence, policy/coordination...
The role of public expenditure significantly increased in the past several years as core national budget expenditures rose from 9 percent of GDP in 2002/03 to 20 percent in 2009/10. The domestic revenue-to-GDP...
Afghanistan and its donor community face a dilemma that is critical to the country's sustained development: how to channel more foreign assistance through the government's budgetary system (i.e., core...