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| NEW SIPRI REPORT |  | |
Breaking the Afghan private sector’s deadlock
Stockholm, 12 October. SIPRI, together with the International Council of Swedish Industry (NIR), present one of the most comprehensive reports on the Afghan private sector to date. Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the report is the product of a one-year field and desk research study of the status of the private sector in Afghanistan and its connection to issues of development and security. It will be officially presented in Brussels, Kabul, Stockholm and Washington D.C. over the next few weeks.
The new report illustrates that the Afghan private sector has thus far failed to fulfil its potential as an engine of economic growth or an instrument of social inclusion. While there is a prospect of tapping this potential, the country’s economy is currently mostly deadlocked. A host of factors have undermined efforts by the Afghan Government and the international community to create a more conducive environment for the formal private sector. This is acutely evident in the many remaining obstacles to socioeconomic progress and to development of the private sector in particular.
To break the deadlock, bold economic reforms and new government partnership modalities with the private sector and the international community are needed. The report offers a comprehensive review of the Afghan private sector and concrete recommendations to the Afghan Government, national stakeholders and the international community on how to facilitate a more inclusive, productive and competitive Afghan private sector.
For the full details on the way forward, the research supporting it and the private sector’s larger historical and politico-economic context, download the complete report http://bit.ly/1VNNmDH
For a brief overview of the report’s findings and recommendations, download the 5 page Executive Summary http://bit.ly/1Mn2Kwg
For further inquiries, contact:
Richard Ghiasy, Project Manager, SIPRI
ghiasy@sipri.org
Henrik Hallgren, Programme Manager, NIR
henrik.hallgren@nir.se
The authors
Richard Ghiasy is a Researcher and Project Manager with SIPRI’s Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme. He is a former external analyst at the Afghan Embassy in Beijing. More recently, he was a Research Fellow at the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) in Kabul. He holds an MPA in development studies from Tsinghua University.
Jiayi Zhou is a Research and Project Assistant with SIPRI’s Armed Conflict and Conflict Management Programme. Before joining SIPRI, she worked as a policy analyst on China–US nuclear relations for the US Air Force.
Henrik Hallgren is Programme Manager for the International Council of Swedish Industry (NIR) and an analyst and writer on East European and Asian affairs. As a co-founder of the think tank Eurasia Forum, he is an adviser to government, civil society and the private sector on a wide range of economic and development-related issues.
For information and interview requests contact Stephanie Blenckner (blenckner@sipri.org, +46 8 655 97 47). Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
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