1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698509103321

Titolo

Examining expiring tax incentives and the needs of small business [[electronic resource] ] : Committee on Small Business, United States House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, hearing held September 11, 2008

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 2008

Descrizione fisica

v, 79 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Tax incentives - Economic aspects - United States

Job creation - United States

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - United States

Federal aid to small business - United States

Small business - United States - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 25, 2008).

"Small Business Committee document number 110-111."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698381203321

Autore

Glaze John A

Titolo

Opium and Afghanistan [[electronic resource] ] : reassessing U.S. counternarcotics strategy / / John A. Glaze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlisle, PA : , : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, , [2007]

Descrizione fisica

v, 18 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Carlisle papers in security strategy

Soggetti

Opium trade - Afghanistan

Drug traffic - Afghanistan - Prevention

Narco-terrorism - Afghanistan - Prevention

Drug control - Afghanistan

Afghanistan Politics and government 2001-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 30, 2007).

"October 2007."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-18).

Nota di contenuto

Background -- Afghanistan's opium economy -- Problems with Afghanistan's opium economy -- Renewed Taliban/insurgency -- Current counternarcotics strategy -- Problems with current counternarcotics strategy -- Recommendations -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Cultivation and production of opium in Afghanistan has skyrocketed since the Taliban were toppled in 2001such that Afghanistan now supplies 92 percent of the world's illicit opium. The expanding opium trade is threatening to destabilize the Afghan government and turn the conflict-ridden country back into a safe haven for drug traffickers and terrorists. This paper examines the nature of the opium problem in Afghanistan and analyzes the allied strategy to counter this growing crisis. In analyzing the current counternarcotics strategy, it points out pitfalls including the counterproductive aspects of opium eradication. Finally, changes to the strategy are proposed, which include increasing troop levels and eliminating national restrictions, substantially increasing financial aid, deemphasizing opium eradication, focusing on long-term alternative livelihoods, aggressively pursuing drug kingpins



and corrupt government officials, and exploring the possibility of Afghanistan's entry to the licit opium market.