Surveys & Studies

Business Tendency survey shows improvement in all four sectors, same to our last report manufacturing performance is the best among the four surveyed sectors. Kabul, Balkh and Kandahar business has improved compared to last survey (Oct 2013). The overall climate indicator shows a higher value because of better climate in Nangarhar.

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Despite existence multiple challenges facing exports of Afghanistan, but have increased significantly in 1392 Solar Year in comparing last year.

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A National Business Agenda (NBA) is an advocacy tool created by the business community, in a given country, to improve the commercial environment in which businesses operate. NBAs identify laws and regulations that hinder business activity and thwart economic growth and job creation. They also offer concrete policy recommendations and specific legislative or regulatory reforms to remove these barriers and improve the business climate.


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Doing Business 2011 : Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs is the eighth in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 183 economies, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, over time.

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World Bank publishes the report “doing business” manually, which measures doing business regulation in 183 countries. Afghanistan ranked 160th in 2010 while it was 168th in 2009.

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