The economic crisis causing the humanitarian crisis are the root causes of Afghans’ loss of access to food, water, shelter, and health care are almost all economic: millions of dollars in lost income, spiking prices, and the collapse of the country’s banking sector.

The social assistance programs in Afghanistan consists of social welfare programs for children, orphans and very poor families; disaster relief and assistance; food for illness program; and food for education program and work for food

Unfortunately, Afghanistan is stuck in a low-level equilibrium trap with very slow economic growth (around or below the population growth rate — meaning the lives of most people will not improve anytime soon). Poverty, unemployment, unequal opportunity, and malnutrition are examples of social problems.

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Children pose for photographs in front of their tents at a camp for internally displaced families in Panjwai district of Kandahar province on March 31, 2021. (Photo by JAVED TANVEER / AFP) (Photo by JAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images)