Ace Is The Place With The Afghan Hardware Man
July 19th, 2013
Via Emerging Markets Frontier blog, an article on Ace Hardware’s planned entry to Afghanistan: Growing uncertainty swirls around Afghanistan’s economic climate as the country inches closer to December 2014, when U.S. and international combat troops are expected to withdraw from an increasingly unpopular war. Many Afghans believe the end of the war also means the […]
Read more »Extreme Franchising: Bringing RadioShack to Afghanistan
July 16th, 2013
Via Businessweek, an interesting look at Radio Shack’s efforts to enter Afghanistan: The next time you stroll through downtown Kabul, you might be able to buy batteries from a RadioShack (RSH) outlet, the result of a new effort by the U.S. to shore up Afghanistan’s economy: selling American franchises to Afghan entrepreneurs. The U.S. has […]
Read more »Beijing’s Plans For A Post-Karzai Kabul
June 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, some analysis of China’s role in Afghanistan post-2014: Hamid Karzai’s derailment of this week’s planned U.S. peace talks with the Taliban may have been a disappointment to Washington’s hopes of ending its longest war — but it disappointed Beijing, too. China welcomed the breakthrough in the Qatar process, and sees a […]
Read more »Afghanistan After The United States And NATO Leave: Economic Boomtown, Or A Disaster Waiting To Happen?
May 26th, 2013
Via the International Business Times, a look at Afghanistan’s economic future: In the armored splendor of the Serena Hotel — all sparkling cream-colored marble, ornate dark woods and vibrant Afghan carpets, behind three layers of security and imposing blast walls — the new Kabuli elite mingle relentlessly. Businessmen clad in Western-style suits, and a few […]
Read more »Commerce In Kabul
May 17th, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on doing business in Afghanistan: Hassina Syed, founder and chief executive of Afghanistan’s Syed Group, seems remarkably calm for a mother of three who has spent time in a crowded Kabul jail for failing to pay protection money to the police and has sent her older children […]
Read more »Apple…In Afghanistan
April 24th, 2013
Via Quartz, an interesting article on Apple’s popularity in Afghanistan: Where do people in Kabul go when they want to buy an iPhone? The same place as everybody else: an Apple Store. But one thing separates the Apple Store in, say, New York, from the one in Kabul: Apple either doesn’t know it exists, or […]
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