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Failing Kabul Bank Threatens Already Weak Economy

February 3, 2011 4 min. read

Tags: Afghanistan's Strained Budget, Hamid Karzai, IMF Assistance to Afghanistan Not Renewed, Kabul Bank, Kabul Bank and Corruption, Kabul Banks Impending Collapse, Mahmoud Karzai, Public and Private Corruption in Afghanistan

Politics turns on public finance; public finance turns on politics. Afghanistan is no different than the United States, or the United Kingdom on those terms. So it comes as a dismaying shock that the government of Afghanistan might have to bail out its largest and most important private bank. Kabul Bank has taken losses as […]

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