| Description |
1 online resource (10 pages) : color illustrations (digital, PDF file) |
| Summary |
Despite ongoing security challenges, the Afghan private sector has enormous opportunity for development and growth and will be a significant determinant to long-term stability in the country. Authors Jake Cusack and Erik Malmstrom are Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans and graduate fellows at Harvard's Kennedy and Business School. This report is based on over 130 on-the-ground interviews with business owners and key stakeholders in Afghan cities Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat. They describe five key characteristics of the Afghan business environment that have implications for policymakers: 1) Afghan businesses are responding rationally to economic incentives in a highly distorted economic environment; 2) uncertainty and unpredictability, not physical insecurity, are the fundamental obstacles to business; 3) businesses are adapting through strategies such as vertically integrating, pursuing short-term trading over long-term enterprises, and 'buying' security; 4) many businesses feel threatened by the Afghan government; and 5) international actors distort the business environment in ways harmful to Afghan business |
| Analysis |
Afghan business economic security Policy government company |
| Notes |
November 2010 |
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"Voices from the field policy brief"--Page 1 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-10) |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed on December 13, 2011) |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Adobe Reader |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Afghanistan
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Business enterprises -- Afghanistan
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Entrepreneurship -- Afghanistan
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Business enterprises.
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Economic development.
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Entrepreneurship.
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Afghanistan.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malmstrom, Erik
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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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Center for a New American Security
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