Challenges of Late Development in Afghanistan : The Transformation That Did Not Happen

Abstract

Agriculture has been seen as the engine of growth for Afghanistan, but it has failed to deliver. Evidence from a long-term livelihood study points to a rural economy that is driven more by social relations than by market relations. These are underpinned by major land inequality and a distributional economy concerned with survival, given the absence of rural employment.

Keywords

agrarian transformation; livelihood trajectories; landlessness; distributional economy

Published in

Asian Survey
2018, volume: 58, number: 6, pages: 1111-1135
Publisher: UNIV CALIFORNIA PRESS

SLU Authors

• Pain, Adam

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG8 Decent work and economic growth

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science
Economics

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/AS.2018.58.6.1111

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/98373