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The “aid bubble” bursts

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BAAG blog, 11 July 2013
BAAG director Jawed Nader describes how a friend was recruiting staff for a call centre in Kabul – and found 300 people waiting, many of whom had lost better-paid jobs as a a result of the ongoing withdrawal of western troops. He quotes OCHA’s humanitarian coordinator saying humanitarian funding for Afghanistanhad dropped by around half in 2012 and that the UN Mine Action Centre had recently lost 1,000 deminers due to ‘very unstable funding’.

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