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Afghanistan - Poverty status update (Vol. 2 of 2) : An analysis based on national risk and vulnerability assessment (NRVA) 2007-08 and 2011-12 (English)

Afghanistan’s per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an average annual rate of 6.9 percent during that period. In contrast, in 2007-08, 36 percent of Afghans were poor, and four years later, still, more than one in three Afghans did not have the buying power to satisfy their basic food and non-food needs. Economic growth in Afghanistan, therefore, is not in and of itself enough to reduce poverty. To achieve poverty reduction, economic growth...
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Ministry of Economy Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan - Poverty status update (Vol. 2 of 2) : An analysis based on national risk and vulnerability assessment (NRVA) 2007-08 and 2011-12 (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/594051468180880731

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