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The econonomic history of Afghanistan
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- The importance of oil in the economic history of Afghanistan
- The environmental history of Afghanistan
- The role of drugs in the economic history of AfghanistanCHILD
The economic history in general of Afghanistan
- FAO/WFP crop and food supply assessment mission to Afghanistan
- FAO global information and early warning system on food and agriculture, World Food Programme, Special Alert, 8 June 2001. The food situation is rapidly deteriorating and will continue to worsen as the current marketing year (2001/02) progresses. The Mission urges the most urgent international response to cover this large gap to avert an imminent catastrophe (93 Kb).
- Industrial sector
- Library of Congress, Country Study, Afghanistan, 14 January 2002. Industry, mining, manufacturing, effects of the war following the Saur Revolution. Soviet policy and its effects.
- Projects to Rebuild Afghan Roads Going Nowhere, Despite Promises
- By Susan B. Glasser, The Washington Post, Wednesday 7 August 2002. For months, the Asian Development Bank had promised that it would take on one of the biggest headaches in postwar Afghanistan: the cratered, agonizingly slow highway connecting Kabul with Kandahar. Instead, the deal fell apart.
- Afghan Carpet Business Booming Again
- By Paisley Dodds, AP, The Washington Post, Friday 23 August 2002. After lean years under the Taliban regime, throngs of foreign aid workers, journalists, soldiers and diplomats have flocked to Afghanistan with plenty of cash to spend. Carpets used to be Afghanistan's third largest export after oil and fruit.