The Taliban’s move to circumscribe women from working could incontinently bring the Afghan frugality up to$ 1 billion, or 5 of GDP, the United Nations Development Programme said in a new report as the militant group seeks global help to forestall a heightening extremity.

The UN report painted a grim picture of Afghanistan’s frugality which is under strain with soaring affectation and an ongoing cash crunch. Women regard for 20 of the country’s pool and precluding them from working could shave half a billion bones alone from ménage consumption, it said.

Over the weekend the Taliban’s amusement Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan sought global help in precluding a farther extremity and gave assurances that the women’s rights would be defended grounded on Sharia law, under which they can study and work. While Hassan is n’t the first functionary from the new Afghan government to seek help, his administration has n’t given clear directions on how they will support women.

The UN report plant that the militant group had told all womanish government workers to stay at home and banned most girls from going to academy after they swept into power in August. Only a small number of women in essential services like nursing have been asked to renew work.

“ I want to say veritably easily that there is n’t a real full recovery of the Afghan frugality without womanish participation,” Abdallah al Dardari, the head of UNDP, said in an interview. “ Our original results show that the donation of educated women to the Afghan productivity is advanced than that of men with the same position of education.”