{"book":"adl0981","page":104,"text":"increase was also made in the gold and silver backing for the paper money in that year, and this amounted to 60.2 per cent.\n\nInterest\nThere are two forms of interest rate in Da Afghanistan Bank, the Commercial Interest rate and the Government Interest rate.\n\n(i) Commercial Interest rate:\n(a) Commercial loan 8 per cent.\n(b) Joint Stock loan 8 per cent.\n\n(ii) Government rate:\n(a) Government Loans 4 per cent.\n(b) Municipalities 4 per cent.\n(c) Government undertakings 4 per cent.\n\nDiscounts\n(i) Discounts on the documents of industrial organisations 7½ per cent.\n(ii) Repeated discount 7 per cent.\n(iii) Cultural discount 5 per cent.\n\nForeign Exchange\nThe Foreign Exchange rate is divided into two sections, namely, the differing rates for the Government's ordinary and developmental budgets on the one hand and for industrial undertakings on the other.\n\n(i) Ordinary and developmental Budget rate:\nCurrency Purchase Sale Afghanis\n(a) 1 U.S. dollar 20 20.25\n(b) 1 Swiss franc 4.662 4.720\n(c) 1 French .. .048 .0413\n(d) 1 German mark 4.7618 4.8214\n(e) 1 Indian and Pakistani rupee 4.2 4.2525\n(f) 1 English £ 56 56.7\n\n(ii) Industrial and Governmental Undertakings rate:\nCurrency Purchase Sale Afghanis\n(a) 1 U.S. dollar 28 28.35\n(b) 1 Swiss franc 6.52 6.6084\n(c) 1 French .. .0517 .0578\n(d) 1 German mark 6.6667 6.75\n(e) 1 Indian and Pakistani rupee 5.88 5.9535\n(f) 1 English £ 78.4 79.38\n\nOUTSIDE ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN\nReceived in the Year 1337\n\nA. U.N.O.\nThe United Nations and its specialised agencies placed the sum of $700,603 at the disposal of the various government departments. Of this, $57,470 were spent in the purchase of equipment and the rest was used for the employment of 74 specialists and the school fees of 11 students.\n\nThe breakdown of the specialists' subjects was as follows:—\n9 specialists connected with U.N.T.A.B.\n1 specialist connected with International Communications Union.\n2 specialists connected with World Meteorological Organisation.\n4 specialists connected with I.L.O.\n21 specialists connected with F.A.O.\n8 specialists connected with U.N.E.S.C.O.\n11 specialists connected with I.C.A.O.\n18 specialists connected with W.H.O.\n\n101","chars":2167,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00104.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/104","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/104","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}