Afghanistan Should Boost its Annual Revenue to $8 billion: Ghani
President Ghani said at the first conference of nongovernmental institutions that world should not look at Afghanistan as a poor and consuming country, but as a country that has a major trading position in Central Asia which has significant underground reserves.
President Ghani said at the first conference of nongovernmental institutions that world should not look at Afghanistan as a poor and consuming country, but as a country that has a major trading position in Central Asia which has significant underground reserves.
“Afghanistan will change into a producing country and a major economic partner among the regional countries using the resources,” said the president, “Afghanistan is the only country that is made up of 75% of the younger generation and the country will become a productive society with the initiative of this generation.”
“Do not see us as a poor country; poverty is not natural and not acceptable. It’s not tolerable for a third of our people to sleep hungry,” said Ghani at the first conference of nongovernmental institutions.
Referring to Afghanistan’s resources, he said: “how a country that has 240 billion tons of iron and 220 million tons of marble and other mineral stones, should not become an export country?”
Mr. Ghani also stressed on strengthening the private sectors.
“Creating an air corridor at the cost of $885 million has stabilized the economic position of the country as an economic corridor in the region. The country should raise its annual income to $ 8 billion by implementing other economic plans, otherwise, it will remain as a poor country,” he added.
“Afghanistan will not improve with an annual growth of 3.5 percent, the country’s minimum annual growth rate should reach 8 percent,” he stressed.
Despite billions of dollars of foreign aid Afghanistan still has not stood on its foot from the economic point of view.
