Two weeks ago, $100 was exchanged for 8,880 Afs, but now it is exchanged for 9,000 Afs, according to money.

Exhibitors from around the country displayed their goods which ranged from machinery to fruit and vegetables as well as processed.

Bad roads, broken water systems and serious power outages in Sheikh Misri park causing major financial losses to local business.

Traders face high tariffs and problems with Iranian border authorities at Nimroz crossing, while Farah and Herat ‘have different set.

Jewelers in Ghazni say their customers are mostly selling their jewelry in order to survive opposed to buying gold and.

Soraya, who runs a handicrafts workshop in Ghor, stated that handicrafts had a flourishing market before the collapse of Afghanistan.

The key cement factory was producing 1,000 tons a day but since the Taliban takeover this has dropped to only.

Experts point out that a number of key categories were not included in the bank’s latest report that is ‘contradictory’.

Shoradam now has only 130 factories that are still operational as they get electricity for only five to eight hours.

The bank says a stable exchange rate, anti-corruption efforts and other measures have enabled the Taliban to contain the economic.