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“It may be perceived as a test of the government, but we know in this part of the world it's very hard for any government to do that much,” said William Byrd, a senior expert on Afghanistan for the United States Institute for Peace in Washington, who ...
William A. Byrd is a senior expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The views expressed are his own., Scott SmithScott Smith is the director for Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The views expressed ...
By William A. ByrdWilliam A. Byrd is a senior expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The views expressed are his own., Scott SmithScott Smith is the director for Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The views expressed ...
However, economist William Byrd, a senior Afghanistan analyst at the United States Institute of Peace, believes that the idea of reducing opium production by spending billions of dollars in assistance has a major flaw. "The export value of opiates is ...
William Byrd, a senior expert on Afghanistan with the United States Institute for Peace and former head of the World Bank office in Kabul, suggested that elements of the Afghan government may be profiting from the crop just as much as the armed groups ...
William A. Byrd is a senior expert at the Washington-based United States Institute of Peace. He is a development economist with long experience of working on Afghanistan and has published extensively on Afghanistan's economy and other topics.
William Byrd, an Afghanistan Senior Expert at the US Institute of Peace, explained to The International that “high addiction rates in Afghanistan for opiates are a relatively recent phenomenon,” and that this widespread addiction is “a product of the ...