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Impact of the War in Ukraine: Afghanistan’s perspective
One year has passed since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. Following is my analysis of the war’s impacts on Afghanistan, published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.
The shock waves of the Ukraine war have impacted energy and grain markets worldwide, including countries like Afghanistan. According to World Food Programme (WFP) reports, the prices of basic commodities such as grains, cooking oils, and fuel began to rise in February 2022. While they picked up in June of the same year, they declined in its second half.
Afghanistan has a diaspora of 5 million people, many of whom are migrant workers, with 11% living in Europe, which has been one of the regions hit hardest in economic terms by the war. As a result, the remittances sent to Afghanistan have decreased, although precise quantitative data is difficult to come by. The impact of the war is the third blow to Afghanistan’s deteriorating economic condition, following the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic collapse that occurred after the Taliban took over on August 15th, 2021.
Despite challenges, Afghanistan may have fared better than countries like Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey and most of Europe that depend on…
