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Afghans are struggling to make ends meet amid an economic crisis that has disrupted basic services, left them with rising costs and dim employment prospects, and battered the health and financial sectors. But the country's Taliban leaders, limited to...
William Byrd of the US Institute of Peace (USIP) said that even if only half of DAB’s total reserves are devoted to support its basic activities as a central bank, it would “provide an opportunity to make a start toward stabilizing the economy and private sector.”
Afghans have far bigger problems than quibbling over the morality of TikTok videos, like deepening poverty, hunger, and physical safety
"This is a crazy policy at the worst possible time," said William Byrd, senior Afghanistan expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in response to a VOA question at an event on Wednesday.
With its economy in free fall, the Taliban is banking on private enterprise to rescue Afghanistan’s people and solidify its regime. That will be tough for a country under international sanctions, with its banks paralyzed, poverty reaching near-universal levels and little confidence among the population in what the future holds. When the Taliban seized power in August, the international aid that made up about 40% of its GDP evaporated. Taliban officials have now cast that as an opportunity...
Last summer, following the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan, the Taliban seized control of the country. In the months since Afghanistan’s economy has been devested by the Taliban’s policies and by international sanctions against the country. On this episode of CNA Talks Jon Schroden welcomes economists Torek Farhadi and Bill Byrd, to discuss this crisis and what can be done to alienate it...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Vice President of Russia-Europe at the United States Institute of Peace, William Taylor, joins News NOW to discuss whether diplomacy can prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine and how the U.S. should be handling the tense situation...