Understanding Taliban Policies & Priorities from Budget Expenditures & Revenues

Analysing Taliban’s Budget Expenditures and Revenues: Understanding the Regime’s Policies and Priorities

Authors: Salma Alokozai and Khalid Payenda

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’s spending patterns and the overall direction of the regime’s policies and priorities, this analysis aims to shed light the regime’s approach to human rights, economic stability, service delivery, security control ambitions, and how the people of Afghanistan and the wider world will be impacted.

This publication is part of a series highlighting the work and analysis of the Afghanistan Research Network (ARN), a project convened by LSE / PeaceRep, and the Civic Engagement Project (CEP) with the Institute for Development Economic Affairs (IDEA). 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.

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