Chandan Sapkota's blog

The Chinese government frequently threatens that meetings between its trading partners’ officials and the Dalai Lama will be met with animo...

The figure below shows that trade and industrial production have returned to pre-crisis level. Look carefully. The recovery relates to by vo...

Industrial policy can be thought of as any type of selective government intervention or policy that attempts to alter the structure of produ...

My latest piece is about the recently announced Nobel Prize in Economics. I briefly discuss some of the main points of MDP’s research and ...

“How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questio...

“Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment, achieving fiscal disci...

In a new book published by the WB, Dipak Dasgupta, Ejaz Ghani, and Ernesto May have a chapter on economic policy challenges for South Asia....