Afghanistan: A Bright Future or An Economic Wasteland?

An Afghan man carries balloons for sale as he walks at Shuhada Lake in Kabul on February 10, 2014. Despite economic improvement in the last decade, Afghanistan is still extremely poor.
( WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP / Getty )

Produced by Elizabeth Ross, Jillian Weinberger and Ellen Frankman

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