World Policy Analysis Center

This website has some excellent statistics and information on lots of different countries.

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Welfare

(e.g. Unemployment benefits, Pensions)

Afghanistan. (2019). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from Britannica School database.

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Provision of Infrastructure

(e.g. Roads, Ports, Railways, Communication, Internet access)

Ali, S. E., & Elias, J. (2014).  Afghanistan. Retrieved from epointplus.com database.

Asian Development Bank. (2017, January 3). Work with the Afghanistan Infrastructure  Trust Fund [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cY-UPHl5oo

You only need to watch 1 minute of this video. This video look at key infrastructure projects that are currently taking place in Afghanistan. It shows what important services have been missing from the country.

ChildFund International. (2013). Infrastructural challenges in Afghanistan. Retrieved from https://www.childfund.org/Content/NewsDetail/2147488949/

International Telecommunications Union. (n.d.). Statistics. Retrieved from https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx

This page gives information in an Excel spreadsheet about how many people in each country have access to telephones and internet technology. You will need to download the spreadsheets to view the data.

Pikulicka-Wilczewska, A. (2019). War, drought, diplomatic rifts deepen Afghanistan’s water crisis. Retrieved from https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/war-drought-diplomatic-rifts-deepen-afghanistans-water-crisis-190504203303668.html

World Food Programme. (2018). Afghanistan road network. Retrieved from https://dlca.logcluster.org/display/public/DLCA/2.3+Afghanistan+Road+Network

Look at the section on road security for some important information.

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Wages and employee relations

(e.g. Minimum wage, Superannuation, Child labour laws, Safety laws)

Human Rights Watch. (2016). “They bear all the pain”: hazardous child labour in Afghanistan. Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/07/14/they-bear-all-pain/hazardous-child-labor-afghanistan

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Provision of goods and services

(e.g. Education, Health care)

Ali, S. E., & Elias, J. (2014).  Afghanistan. Retrieved from epointplus.com database.

Al Jazeera English. (2016, September 6). Afghanistan education: progress made but challenges made [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZQsuWdCrho

HumanRightsWatch. (2017, October 17). Afghanistan: girls struggle for an education [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_9l54aBaBM

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Other relevant areas

World Bank. (2018, October 31). Doing business better in Afghanistan [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBXHA8IuIgM

This video looks at the changes the government have made to laws for people to start businesses.