Private sector investment in Afghanistan is in short supply. The risks facing investors are so high that very few investments can generate the kind of returns that are required to make them viable. This is where the Afghan Business Innovation Fund (www.imurabba.org) steps in, by compensating for investment risk without subsidising operations. We select investments that will change the way that markets work, benefiting our target groups of poor men and women.
Herat mosque
13 April 2012
MDGs to be re-written?
Rumour has it (BBC TV Newsnight) that a commission chaired by UK and Brazil is to lead efforts to re-write the Millennium Development Goals. What good news, and about time some of us would say. I guess that because forgetting about them altogether (good option) or admitting that the idea of such goals was wrong (better option) would be politically impossible, re-writing them so that we avoid a day of reckoning is the only viable option?
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