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AFN - Afghan Afghani (؋)

Afghan Afghani

The Afghan Afghani (AFN) was introduced in 2003 as the new currency for Afghanistan. Two distinct rates were established: the government issue of 1000 and the northern alliance of 2000. Prior to 2003 the currency was the Afghanistan Afghani (AFA). There is no stock market. Money lending as well as foreign exchange is done through money bazaars.

The Afghan Afghani is the currency in Afghanistan (AF, AFG). The symbol for AFN can be written Af. The Afghan Afghani is divided into 100 puls. The exchange rate for the Afghan Afghani was last updated on May 24, 2019 from Yahoo Finance. The AFN conversion factor has 3 significant digits.

Economy

• Afghanistan relies on foreign aid, trade, and farming from bordering countries.
• The country and international concerns are focusing on improving infrastructure by creating jobs, promoting development of housing, and investing in education.
• International groups contributed over $2 billion to help Afghanistan’s dying economy.
• Afghanistan's agricultural products include wheat, wool, nuts, mutton, opium, lamb skin, and sheep skin.
• Afghanistan exports mainly nuts, fruit, carpets, and cotton.
• Imports include textiles, petroleum products, and capital goods.

History

• The first Afghani (AFA) was introduced in 1925. Before this time period the Afghan Rupee was the official currency.
• From the year 1925 to the year 1928 Afghani treasury notes were introduced.
• In 1975, all Afghanistan banks were nationalized.
• In 1981, the Afghani was pegged to the United States Dollar at 1 USD = 50 Afghanis.
• Afghanistan was taken over by Taliban rulers in 1996. The Taliban central bank declared the Afghanistan Afghani worthless and the bank cancelled the contract they had with Russia for printing their money. The country's currency was devalued against the US dollar to a rate of 1 USD = 43 Afghani.
• In 2002, the new Afghan Afghani currency (AFN) was introduced. In October, 2003 Afghanistan started using AFN as the official currency in local trade.
• In 2005, Afghani coins replaced the 1, 2, and 5 Afghani banknotes.
• Since 2005 the Afghanistan economy has grown at a steady pace.

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VND - Vietnamese Dong (VND)

The đồng is the currency of Vietnam. The most popular Vietnamese đồng conversion is into US dollars. The currency code for the đồng is VND, and it’s also represented by the symbol ₫, or simply ‘D’. The current iteration of the đồng has been the currency of Vietnam since 1978. The VND is a fiat currency, and its conversion factor has 4 significant digits.

The đồng has been the currency of Vietnam since May 3, 1978. It is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam. It is is represented by the symbol ₫ and subdivided into 10 hào. However, the hào is now worth so little that it is no longer issued.

The Viet Nam Dong is the currency in Vietnam (Viet Nam, VN, VNM). The symbol for VND can be written D. The exchange rate for the Viet Nam Dong was last updated on May 24, 2019 from Yahoo Finance. The VND conversion factor has 5 significant digits.

Economy

• Major economic reform was undertaken in Vietnam starting in 1986. Unhappy with the lack of economic improvements post-Vietnam war, the country’s new leaders implemented reforms to shift Vietnam from a “planned economy” to a “socialist-oriented market economy”.
• Vietnam is in the process of integrating into the world economy as part of globalization. Almost all Vietnamese enterprises are SME. Vietnam has been rising as a leading agricultural exporter and an attractive foreign investment destination in Southeast Asia.
• As of April 2008, 1 US Dollar was equivalent to about 20,850 Vietnamese đồng. The relationship between the US dollar and Vietnamese đồng is important because the đồng, although not freely convertible, is loosely pegged to the Dollar through an arrangement called a crawling peg.

History

• In 1946, the Viet Minh government (later to become the government of North Vietnam) introduced their own currency, the đồng, which replaced the French Indochinese piastre at par.
• In 1953 banknotes that were denominated in both piastres and đồng were issuedfor the State of Vietnam, which evolved into South Vietnam in 1954.
• On September 22, 1975, after the fall of Saigon, the currency in South Vietnam was changed to the liberation đồng, worth 500 old southern đồng.
• The government's Second Five-Year Plan (1976–1981) set extraordinarily high goals for annual growth rates in industry, agriculture, and national income and aimed to integrate the North and the South.
• However, the plan's aims were not achieved: the economy remained dominated by small-scale production, low labor productivity, unemployment, and material and technological shortages.

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