GLOBALIZATION

Following database´s information we found two different opinions about how globalization has affected Afghanistan, but both has in common that this impact has been negative.

Afghanistan has been affected by the negative forces of globalization.  Which according to the Political Counselor Ashraf Haidari stating in his speech on “Transnationalism: Its Impact on South Asian Economy and Politics”, that the negative forces include “transnational extremists, terrorists, and drug traffickers to further destroy Afghanistan and victimize its people” (The Embassy of Afghanistan, 2006).

There is a substantial amount of corruption involved in every corner of its governance. The leaders and the warlords of Afghanistan are benefitting from the opium trade in the illicit markets around the globe. According to the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Assessment of Corruption in Afghanistan, there has been stated that “ Thirty years of conflict that has weakened underdeveloped state institutions and the country's social fabric, Afghanistan's dominant role in worldwide opium and heroin production, and the tremendous size and diversity of international security, humanitarian and development assistance all increase Afghanistan's vulnerability to corruption” (USAID, 2009).

Globalization in Afghanistan is yet not a known, familiar and accepted terminology in the minds of local people and dictionaries of businessmen. Thus it still remains to be a challenging process for the young afghan administration and Afghanistan's weak economy.

Its economic infrastructures totally ruined and therefore it is now fully dependent on the imported products of other countries. Since the collapse of Taliban regime in 2001, Afghanistan with the assistance of International Community has tried to rebuild its economic infrastructures but still it is a long way back
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