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Highlights the development challenges seen in Afghanistan and the reasons why it is still reliant on agriculture
Provides a critical examination of a market-based regime
Explores the power of ideology and how it is converted into policy and practice
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the reconstruction of Afghanistan’s economy during the US and international occupation of the country between 2001 and 2021. Applying an institutionalist framework and based on extensive empirical data, it focuses on resource allocation by private individuals in manufacturing activities. As such, market-oriented policy adopted in this period is analysed to highlight its suitability in such a context for achieving relatively better and more productive resource allocation.
The book underscores ‘socially contingent knowledge’ and its role in private resource allocation where the private sector’s involvement is fledgling, bringing out the limitations and possibilities that this feature entails. It raises important questions and deals with problems that are relevant to contemporary debates in economics and political economy of development.
Authors and Affiliations
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Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL (University College London), London, UK
Kambaiz Rafi
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Patriarchal Hierarchy
Book Subtitle: Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan
Authors: Kambaiz Rafi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98407-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98406-9Published: 04 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98409-0Published: 05 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98407-6Published: 03 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 327
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Economic Policy, Natural Resource and Energy Economics