Chandan Sapkota's blog

The Indian government has recently decided to cancel the entire debt of small farmers that will cost it around $15 billion (IRs 600 billion...

What can we do to help the bottom billion? Prof. Paul Collier says, "a combination of compassion and enlightened self interest ....

By Kamal Raj Dhungel in The Kathmandu Post : ...Three years ago the government estimated that Gini coefficient of Nepal was 0.47. This wa...

Though South-South FDI is rising in recent years (particularly massive investment plans of China and India, China more so), a new report po...

An interesting paper , authored by Prof. Sudhir K. Khatri, on the role of remittances in poverty alleviation and employment in South Asia. H...

What happens when nutrition programs are just not aimed at filling hungry or malnourished stomach but are aimed at changing general nutritio...

An interesting, and surprising, paper from the IMF shows that remittances have a negative effect on the quality of institutions. It is pret...