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THIS WEEK'S SAT BRIEF

Self-Sufficiency on Paper

Five years on, the Taliban present an Afghanistan on the road to self-sufficiency: 330 "self-sufficient" products, 6,500 factories and $2.389 billion in deals. Almost none of it can be checked, and the data that can be checked tell a different story.

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