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KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) on Tuesday said the country’s exports increased by eight percent, but investments decreased by 30 percent in 2015. AISA chief Qurban Haqju told a press conference here that Afghanistan’s economic growth in 2015 had been estimated by the govement, the World Bank and the Inteational Monetary Fund (IMF) at 5-6 percent. But the Central Statistics Organisation (CSO) said the economic growth was 1.5 percent in 2015 and the World Bank said it was 0.5 percent, Haqju said. He cited the CSO aual statistics report on economic growth in 2014 and said the growth had declined from 6.5 percent to 2.2 percent in 2015 due to the cut in foreig...