Chandan Sapkota's blog

Even Martin Feldstein says Keynesian economics work when the credit market is distressed badly: In a paper, Mr. Feldstein noted that the usu...

At present, the major constraints to growth of industrial sector in Nepal seems to be poor appropriability of returns to investment and p...

Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world’s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV—25.8 million. ...

Easterly on The Poor Man’s Burden Today, just when we were getting over the long, toxic legacy of the Depression and its misguided emph...

Antonio Ciccone argues that a 5% income shock (say by drought) raises the likelihood of civil conflict by 15 percentage points. To s...

Global financial crisis 2008: All the discussions and links summarized here

The only “nomadic” tribesmen in Nepal, Rautes, are lobbying to keep their tradition and livelihood alive. … The Raute tradition compri...