Tuesday December 1, 2015
Kabul (BNA) Economic growth could be secured by efforts towards revitalization of the country’s infrastructural projects, experts and officials believed.
A house member, Hashemi said the government of Afghanistan should do its best to spend the development budget along with the donors’ aids to make transparence in the infrastructural projects as the move would help the country get self-sufficiency as well as expand relation with the regional and world nations. “The plan, if practiced well, would help the government relation remain firm with the regional countries, as unfortunately nothing tangible had been still done in the last more than 13 years of the country,” Hashemi said. Paying heed to the infrastructural projects would be effective and would make the main pivot of the country’s economy, said an economic analyst, said head of the international relation for Afghanistan chamber of commerce and industries, Azrakhsh Hafezi who divided economy into three pivots; national economic pivot, regional economic pivot and world economic pivot. “The economy of Afghanistan, as an independent country, should be considered based on these three factors,” Hafezi continued.
Fortunately, Afghanistan enjoys a geo-economic hub, playing historic role in linking the regional and world countries, he said adding some significant projects had been launched in the last 13 years in Afghanistan, where TAPI and KASA-1000 projects could be enumerated among them, but regretted on the in vain flow of the huge funds that left no noticeable impact due the government’s insufficient attention. Hafezi asked the government for providing an inclusive economic program, under which, both the government and private sectors could implement their projects in the infrastructural projects. Saifuddin Saihoon, a Kabul University economic lecturer said undoubtedly infrastructural projects and small enterprises can play effective role in any countries’ economy, and the country’s main and infrastructural projects would be effective in expansion of relations between Afghanistan and regional countries. He said: “Unfortunately, in the last 13 years, large amount of the international community’s funds were not spent in the infrastructural projects and were not used in the mining, creation of water dams and securing energy, agriculture and less had been used in the road building projects.” These projects, if the government could run successfully, would help Afghanistan expand relation with the regional countries, alongside highly being effective in the country’s economic development, the expert said. An Afghan citizen, Mohammad Reza also believed if the government step up in transparently using the funds and paying enough heed in the country’s infrastructural projects, the country’s would get revitalized in economic sphere and would compete other advancing nations. Suraya Raiszada
