Talk:Economy of Afghanistan/Archive 1

Archive 1

Trade in antiquities

Trade in antiquities worth up to £18bn as thieves excavate sites - Plunder goes on across Afghanistan as looters grow ever bolder
That was the headline of this article in the Guardian Newspaper: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/dec/13/highereducation.artsandhumanities
This is an article published in The Hindu, an Indian Newspaper, in Sept. 2004: http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/26/stories/2004092608670400.htm
--Zaccarias (talk) 23:45, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Narco-state implied?

Is the largest export really opium? Is the largest agriculture product really opium? Seems like this is overplayed a little bit because opium makes the news more than pomegranates. Maybe Afghanistan exports more opium than any other country but that doesn't means it the largest export of the country. Need references. --MarsRover 03:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is. 60% of Afghanistan exports are drugs. Afghanistan supplies 80 percent of the world’s heroin: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.28.176.175 (talk) 10:10, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Economy of Afghanistan

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Economy of Afghanistan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "IMF":

• From Germany: "Germany". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
• From Economy of Kazakhstan: "Kazakhstan". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 2009-10-01.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 16:25, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Atrocious

This whole article is appalling, bearing no relation to reality. The Afghan economy has improved since 2002? In the lede? Are you having a laugh? Someone please sort this out before it gets slashed and burned. --62.163.152.44 (talk) 23:08, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

It is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and this should be mentioned in the lede.[1] The The World Factbook starts by saying: "Afghanistan's economy is recovering from decades of conflict. The economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of international assistance, the recovery of the agricultural sector, and service sector growth."[2]--39.41.248.12 (talk) 15:15, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

USSR built hundreds of schools and hospitals, hundred miles of pipelines and paved roads, several power stations, dozens of factories, including oil refinery and metallurgy. 1979-1989 number of doctors increased more than 10 times. Oil & gas was the primary exports of Afghanistan.

US built 2 schools, some hotels and villas for its officials, destroyed several hospitals, quadrupled opium production. Heroin now is primary exports of Afghanistan. Yes, results are stunning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.28.176.175 (talk) 10:20, 12 July 2020 (UTC)