In Kabul can be had the products of Khurasan, Rum, `Iraq and Chin (China); while it is Hindustan’s own market. Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, The Babur-Nama (ca. 1530, trans. 1922) Notwithstanding the tightly closed door into Afghanistan, trade with the outside world is increasing, important improvements are projected, and European and American ideas, fashions, and articles […]
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Afghanistan: Markets
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Afghanistan: Opium
When we marched from Kandahar to Kelat, there were no supplies at all of opium. Col. W.W. Biscoe, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Opium (1894) It is in the western and eastern parts of this mountainous band on either side of India that are to be found the world’s two most […]
Afghanistan: Kabul
Kabul town’s a blasted place — Blow the bugle, draw the sword — ‘Strewth I sha’n’t forget ‘is face Wet an’ drippin’ by the ford! Rudyard Kipling, “The Ford o’ Kabul River,” Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (1914)
Haiti: Independence
Thirty years ago, Haiti raised nearly all the rice it needed. What happened? Bill Quigley, The U.S. Role in Haiti’s Food Riots (April 2008). U.S. intervention in Haitian agricultural policy is not without precedent. Paisley Doods, “US rice doesn’t help struggling Haitian farmers.” Business Week (February 26, 2010).
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Haiti: State
If Haitian society cannot move forward and cannot realize the dream of modernity that sparked its revolution at the end of the 18th century, it is in part because it had an elite that lived by siphoning off the country’s productivity to support its personal consumption. J. Michael Dash, “Rebuilding Haiti: The Next Two Hundred […]