Eishan Jan, Mohammad Naqib
(2022)
How to ease Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis.
NewStraits Times, - (-).
pp. 1-3.
Abstract
THE humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is appalling. Despite having US$1 trillion or more in untapped natural resources, the country lacks liquidity and suffers from an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
This requires immediate and practical action. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), whose mission is to help countries reduce poverty, achieve sustainable economic growth and human development, approximately 23 million Afghans need food, and 97 per cent of the 38 million population are at risk of poverty.
Controlling this dire crisis and achieving sustainable economic growth requires effective moral leadership and good governance, which Afghanistan unfortunately lacks for a very long time.
Due to these shortages, Afghanistan, despite having rich natural resources, tourism potential and hospitable culture, instead of achieving economic growth, has a fragmented economy to the point that the Taliban-led government is unable to pay its civil servants.
Seventy per cent of teachers work without pay, malnourished children go to health centres and millions of students — the future of Afghanistan — are out of school.
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