Market development, Location of Bazaars and Road Network Conditions

Information on the Afghan road network, market development and bazaar distribution is essential not only for a better appreciation of economic and trade constraints as well as opportunities, but also in order to design appropriate programs targeting rural populations and for planning field activities. In order to fill existing gaps, road and market data have been collected and analysed. This paper builds on formal data collection on market locations and road network conditions as well as qualitative field observations made by the author. It also explores the mechanisms of market creation and road network development that took place during the past 25 years of conflict as well as the role of the hawâla system in financing market activities in the country. It also provides pre-war benchmarks (from1977) on the situation of markets and road situation which are compared to today’s situation. A database containing all data collected in the field has been compiled.

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