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Afghanistan  

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  • Afghanistan is a country that symbolizes war and poverty. With regard to the United Nations Human Development Index, the country ranked 181st out of 182 countries in 2009 and has changed little since then because the country and its people are at war. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Afghanistan]

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