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Join Lynne O’Donnell for 8AM’s podcast series, Insights. Lynne talks with generals, diplomats, soldiers, journalists, politicians, activists, people who have front row seats for conflicts around the world, and citizens with a story to tell, happy or sad. For this first series, Afghanistan is the focus. Lynne and her guests talk about the collapse of the republic in August, 2021, and the impact since — for the people of Afghanistan, for the security of the region, for the safety of the world. It’s important, interesting and insightful.
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Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Follow the Money
For this week’s Insights podcast, Lynne talks with Shah Mohammad Mehrabi. He is a professor of economics and a co-trustee of the Afghan Fund, which was set up two years ago in Switzerland to administer $3.5 billion of Afghanistan's foreign exchange reserves. He has all the numbers at his fingers tips and refers to them to make a series of points about the economy before and after the fall of the republic. Without explicit reference to the way women have been locked out of economic activity by the Taliban regime, he says that without them, true progress will be very difficult, if not impossible. Have a listen
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