Thursday, November 19, 2009

Poverty & Unemployment in Afghanistan

A poll was taken in Afghanistan by Oxfam asking Afghans the cause of the conflict in their country. Here are the results:


I went to a talk a few days ago by Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute who said that the strongest risk factor for a failed state is the rate of unemployment, especially among young men. Check out his new book: Plan B 4.0, which you can even download for free.




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