Challenges and opportunities for investment in Afghanistan during the coalition forces’ support for the government

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to look into the obstacles and opportunities to investment in Afghanistan during the coalition forces support for the Republic of Afghanistan. For the mentioned purpose World Bank (WB) enterprise survey and probit regression were used, with dependent dummy variables being access to finance, access to land, access to electricity, being in a stable political environment, taxes, and security, and dependent variables being age, small enterprises, medium enterprises, and large enterprises, experience of top-level managers, and firm ages. And the results show Access to land in case of firms experiences, access to electricity in case of the large firms and domestic firms, access to political stability in case of medium and domestic firms, and taxes had been the most significant and significant barriers for investors and businesses.