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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Export discoveries and imitation
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The rate of export discoveries goes down when first movers expect fewer benefits from their inventions because of imitation threats posed by...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Maoist madness in the Himalayas
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The Maoist party is probably the most contradictory and inconsistent party in Nepalese dirty political arena. It is perhaps the most disgust...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Conflict and development in South Asia
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Ghani and Iyer have a good note on the relationship between conflict and development in South Asia. This blog post is just jutting down of ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sachs vs. Easterly over MDGs, again!
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Jeffrey Sachs bats for “multi-donor pooled funding that has clear timelines, objectives and accountability”. We need a major change of...
The human cost of Maoist insurgency in Nepal
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Preliminary estimates (number): Killed - 16,791 Disappeared - 1,327 Internally displaced - 78,708 Widowed - 9,000 Disabled - 4,305 P...
Monday, September 20, 2010
Neoclassical models (plus economists) failed!
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A good narrative about how neoclassicals and rational expectationists assumed general equilibrium in everything (and created an economic me...
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Consequences of high-skilled “brain drain”
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This paper presents the results of innovative surveys which tracked academic high-achievers from five countries to wherever they moved in...
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