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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    June, 2007
    Afghanistan

    The purpose of this report is to review
    and assess Afghanistan's legal framework regulating
    social safeguards (national and local laws, regulations,
    procedures and policies) with special reference to the law
    and practice of compulsory land acquisition, or
    expropriation. The overall objective of the report is to
    consider how Afghanistan's legal framework would
    address social safeguard issues in upcoming World Bank

  2. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Afghanistan

    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

  3. Library Resource
    April, 2015
    Afghanistan

    Economic growth, job creation, and
    development are central to the decade of transformation
    (2015-25) and long-term security for the people of
    Afghanistan. The Bank and the Government of the Islamic
    Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA) recognize that agriculture
    and rural development are a key to inclusive growth, and
    hence need renewed vigor and strategic long-term
    investments. Further, the Bank and the GoIRA acknowledge

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Afghanistan

    In societies with widespread gender
    discrimination, development programs that encourage female
    participation in local governance can potentially redress
    gender imbalances in economic, political, and social
    outcomes. Using a randomized field experiment encompassing
    500 Afghan villages, this study finds that a development
    program which incorporates mandated female participation
    increases female mobility and involvement in income

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Afghanistan

    This study examines the constraints on
    the housing sector in Afghanistan. It evaluates government
    policy on housing, looks at the state of housing finance,
    and examines legal and regulatory barriers with a bearing on
    the housing market. The report provides policy
    recommendations aimed at helping to develop a private-sector
    led housing market. To assist in formulating policies and
    implementing actions, the study recommends forming a housing

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2010
    Afghanistan

    From the document's preface: "This draft Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) sets out the general principles and policies to be followed in connection with any land acquisition and resultant resettlement which will occur during the implementation of the proposed Irrigation Restoration and Development Project scheduled to commence in 2011.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Afghanistan

    The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is a diagnostic tool to assess the status of land governance at country level using a participatory process that draws systematically on existing evidence and local expertise rather than on outsiders.

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