M-Paisa: Ending Afghan Corruption, One Text at a Time
M-Paisa: Ending Afghan Corruption, One Text at a Time
- October 17, 2010
Monty Mumford of TechCrunch reports:
Afghanistan supplies 92% of the world’s opiates. According to the latest available figures, the country produced 8,200 tons of heroin in 2008, more than double the the amount three years earlier.
But even being the heroin capital of the world, bringing in more money than most
Afghans can dream of, the on-going war and rampant corruption means the money goes
to the wrong people and the country has no infrastructure. There are no decent roads,
no railways… But they do have mobile phones.
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