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What is the current state of Afghanistan's economy?

by Kai Ryssdal and Richard Cunningham

Feb 23, 2022

Afghanistan was on the precipice of a humanitarian disaster, and it fell off that precipice, said Madiha Afzal at the Brookings Institution.

People shop at a vegetable market in Kabul in January. Since the Taliban takeover, an estimated 22.8 million Afghans are facing life-threatening food insecurity.

Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images

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