Javid Ahmad via The National Interest:  Afghanistan is struggling to recover from damage done by war and tumultuous politics. To be sure, despite progress made towards self-reliance, the Afghan economy is still mostly donor-dependent. Despite a marginal increase in the total government expenditures between 2014 and 2017, donor grants provided to offset the Afghan budget represented an estimated 18 percent of the Afghan GDP. Click here to read more (external link).