{"id":20634,"date":"2023-05-31T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=20634"},"modified":"2024-11-20T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:40:33","slug":"afghanistan-research-network-taliban-budget-expenditures-revenues","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/gentest.cahss.ed.ac.uk\/dev-peacerep\/publication\/afghanistan-research-network-taliban-budget-expenditures-revenues\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Taliban Policies &#038; Priorities from Budget Expenditures &#038; Revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Analysing Taliban\u2019s Budget Expenditures and Revenues: Understanding the Regime\u2019s Policies and Priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authors: Salma Alokozai and Khalid Payenda<\/p>\n<p>Fundamental purposes of a government budget process require allocating resources effectively, using tax policy to provide the right mix of incentives for economic growth, and demonstrating fair use of public money. In seeking to discuss the Taliban\u2019s spending patterns and the overall direction of the regime\u2019s policies and priorities, this analysis aims to shed light the regime\u2019s approach to human rights, economic stability, service delivery, security control ambitions, and how the people of Afghanistan and the wider world will be impacted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">This publication is part of a series highlighting the work and analysis of the <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Afghanistan Research Network<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> (ARN), a project convened by LSE \/ PeaceRep, and the Civic Engagement Project (CEP) with the Institute for Development Economic Affairs (IDEA). <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The network brings together over 20 Afghan researchers (and several non-Afghans) with diverse expertise and backgrounds investigating a range of issues. This project aims to support Afghan researchers who were recently forced to leave Afghanistan; to ensure expert and analytical provision; inform contextually-appropriate international policies and practices on Afghanistan; and to deepen understanding of evolving political, security, and economic dynamics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/2023\/05\/29\/afghanistan-research-network\/\">Learn more about the Afghanistan Research Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/about\/research-sites\/afghanistan\/\">Browse all Afghanistan research publications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This analysis of the Taliban\u2019s spending patterns sheds light on the overall direction of the regime\u2019s policies and priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":20625,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":""},"categories":[1822,1836,1817,235],"tags":[658],"authors":[1993,1994],"class_list":["post-20634","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-peace-processes-themes","category-peace-processes","category-publication","tag-publication","countries-afghanistan","authors-alokozai","authors-payenda","themes-peace-processes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Understanding Taliban Policies &amp; 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