KABUL soared to 39 percent of the population in 2013-14 from 36 percent in 2011-12, meaning an additional 1.3 million Afghans were unable to satisfy basic food and non-food needs, a report said on Monday.
Poverty and unemployment increased in the three years after the start of international troops withdrawing in 2011 due to a sharp fall in growth and rise in insecurity, the joint report by the government and the World Bank said.
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