The report emphasises the fact that the incidence of poverty in the North and the east the area largely affected by the conflict, have increased although it has decreased in other parts of the country. Some of the major topics discussed in the report are: Agriculture, Unemployment, Deprivation of basic economic infrastructures and Social indicators. Although foregoing evidences indicate the enormous potential out there for economic revival and poverty alleviation in the North & East Province non-market institutional impediments act as a barrier for the alleviation of war-induced poverty in the Province.

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