KABUL Bank said on Wednesday.
“Growth picked up in Afghanistan in 2019. This is good news, but insecurity and political uncertainty are holding back the Afghan economy,” said World Bank Country Director Henry Kerali.
Afghanistan needed to ramp up the pace of reforms to generate faster growth necessary to improve the living standards of the people and reduce poverty, he stressed.
The report said as drought impacts further receded and private sector confidence improved following the presidential election, growth was expected to accelerate to . . .
