February 11, 2022
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“Freeing up $3.5 billion of Afghanistan’s reserves to meet urgent humanitarian needs is welcome, but this crisis cannot be solved without action to ease the international constraints imposed on Afghanistan’s economy and banking system,” Masood Ahmed, a former director of the International Monetary Fund’s Middle East and Central Asia Department and the current president of the left-leaning Center for Global Development think tank, said in a statement.