Economic Consequences of ‎COVID-19 in Afghanistan: ‎Some Policy Suggestions‎

Dr. Nassir Ul Haq Wani and Mr. Wais Wahab

Volume 3 Issue 3 | Sep 2020

DOI: 10.31841/KJEMS.2021.19

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Introduction

COVID-19 will be remembered as the virus that stopped the world. The ‎coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc globally, leaving governments and ‎communities struggling to find a response. This is happening even as new ‎technological and industrial transformations are altering societies around ‎the world. And as such Afghanistan is no exception to it. We are living ‎through a period that can only be described as the greatest act of solidarity ‎in history, as people give up civic freedoms to save lives. And while we all ‎agree that managing the health crisis is the overwhelming priority, the ‎social and economic consequences are, and will be, dramatic in an already ‎troubled world. ‎