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04620aam a2200493 i 4500 001 0B96989CC48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230317010022 008 220519t20232023enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022020370 020 $a 1032157372 020 $a 9781032157375 020 $a 1032157356 020 $a 9781032157351 035 $a (OCoLC)1337947467 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d WAU $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-af--- 050 00 $a KNF955 $b .R34 2023 100 1 $a Rahimi, Haroun, $e author. 245 10 $a Reform and regulation of economic institutions in Afghanistan / $c Haroun Rahimi. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2023. 300 $a xviii, 276 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge research in international economic law series 500 $a Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Unviersity of Washington, 2018) issued under title: Formalizing informal trade and credit institutions : designing effective institutional economic reforms in Afghanistan and beyond. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Background on the economy and the problems of credit transacting in Afghanistan -- Formal financial and dispute resolution institutions in Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's formal financial institutions -- Critique of the approach to institutional reform in Afghanistan, and a proposal for a new approach : grounded institutional reform -- Conclusions and recommendations. 520 $a "Taliban's return to power in August of 2021 caused everyone to ask why the two decades of institution building in Afghanistan failed. This book investigates the root causes of failed reforms in an important area of reform: trade and credit institutions. It explains why the efforts to reform and regulate the economic institutions in Afghanistan failed and what we can learn from their failure. It draws on more than eighty interviews with Afghan merchants, business leaders, money dealers, and government officials in five major provinces of Afghanistan to identify the barriers to access to credit and to understand the performance of formal institutions (banks) and their informal counterparts. This book finds that Afghan merchants were often unable to benefit from the offerings of formal institutions for three reasons: a highly volatile business climate, uncertain contract enforcement, and an unsupportive property rights system. Several informal institutions have emerged that alleviate some of the credit constraints on Afghan merchants. These informal institutions include risk-sharing trade credit operations, money dealers' short-term working capital loans, Gerawee, and Sar qufli. Although these informal institutions have helped Afghan merchants survive, they are unable to support economic growth. This book argues that countries like Afghanistan should solve their institutional dilemma by adopting an approach which the author calls "Grounded Institutional Reform." Using this approach, a country would formalize existing informal institutions, a development that would vastly increase their effectiveness. While this book focuses on credit and trade in Afghanistan, the analysis of "formalizing the informal" can easily be extended to solve other types of economic problems in similarly situated countries. This book should be of great interest to scholars, policymakers, and development workers in the field of law, finance, and development"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Credit $x History $z Afghanistan $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Law and economic development $z Afghanistan $x History $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x Economic policy $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Afghanistan $x Economic conditions $y 2001-2021. 650 7 $a Credit $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00882532 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Economic policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902025 650 7 $a Law and economic development. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993898 651 7 $a Afghanistan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205406 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rahimi, Haroun. $t Reform and regulation of economic institutions in Afghanistan $d Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 $z 9781003245476 $w (DLC) 2022020371 830 0 $a Routledge research in international economic law. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240717020423.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B96989CC48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search