Making Afghanistan Self-Reliant: The Infrastructure and Mining Sector the Country Needs
Publisher: Foreign Affairs
Author(s): Rohullah Osmani and Jan Brecht-Clark
Date: 2016
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance
Countries: Afghanistan
i early October, representatives from about 70 countries and 30 international organizations and agencies will gather in Brussels to attend the Partnership for Prosperity and Peace conference on Afghanistan. The meeting comes as the country is facing security and political challenges, declining economic growth, and a brain drain. It will serve as a platform to review the government’s progress since the Tokyo conference in July 2012 and the London conference in December 2014 and to set out a vision for continuing reform and growth. It will also be an opportunity for the donor community to renew its commitment to sustained political and financial support for lasting peace, state building, and development in Afghanistan