WasteOfTheDay: No Magic Carpet to Rescue Vendors in Afghanistan

In 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development began pumping $9.4 million into establishing a Kabul carpet export center.

Noting the importance of the Afghan carpet industry — Afghanistan’s second largest employer after agriculture — USAID created the center “to enhance the capacity of the Afghan carpet industry to meet international market requirements by addressing major constraints in the process of bringing carpets to market.”