The tribulations of Delawari

By Eric Ellis

By Eric Ellis

Afghanistan gets back to business

As Euromoney went to press at the end of August, the vagaries of Afghanistan’s fledgling political system – and the impact they might have on the country’s economic revival – were thrown in to sharp relief by parliament’s attempts to oust central bank governor Noorullah Delawari.

Delawari fell just three votes short of confirmation in a parliamentary vote. Observers say it is a problem in the Afghan parliament that technocrats such as Delawari are not well known, and much voting takes place along purely party political lines.

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