Examination of Afghanistan's development traps

Knez, Klemen (author), Lokar Grden, Tina (author)

We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development traps operating at the demographic, economic and institutional levels, we seek to assess whether and to what extent their functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically, we use several empirical indicators, and we employ non-linear smooth transition models to evaluate the link between empirical indicators and economic development. We show that Afghanistan is caught in multiple development traps with entwined functioning, creating additional positive feedback loops that impede both the endogenous development of productive capacities and the broader social structural changes.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Afghanistan, development trap, endogenous growth, smooth transition model, underdevelopment
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 17 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 16, iss. 2, art. 12556
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-158408
• UDC: 316.334:33
• ISSN on article: 1757-7802
• DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12556
• COBISS.SI-ID: 112072195
• Publication date in RUL: 06.06.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Regional science policy & practice
• Publisher: Elsevier, Regional Science Association International
• ISSN: 1757-7802
• COBISS.SI-ID: 30559837

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podrazvitost, pasti razvoja, endogeni razvoj, družbeni razvoj, Afganistan

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Young researchers