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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Food Price Index surpasses the spike in 2008

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The FAO Food Price Index has surpassed the upper bound reached in 2008. Commodity-wise, price of sugar has been spiking since May 2009. Si...

Free markets and food security

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WB president Robert Zoellick argues that free markets can still feed the world and reduce food market volatility. To enable vulnerable coun...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Does remittances increase consumption and investment?

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Anupam Das and John Serieux say not necessarily. They argue that a significant portion of remittances is no longer available for domestic r...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Hypocrisy of Nepali banking sector

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Just yesterday the bigwigs of the Nepali banking sector were making a high pitch about the central bank being anti-market, forcing the gover...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Lessons for developing countries from China’s and India’s growth successes

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Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and Guanghua Wan argue that the growth successes of China and India offer three main lessons for the developing co...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Profile of Avinash Dixit in F&D magazine

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Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at Harvard, says Dixit was the best classroom teacher he ever had—he never tr...

Sources of revenue in the Nepali economy

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The total revenue in FY 2007/08, 2008/09, and 2009/10 was Rs 107.6 billion, Rs 143.5 billion and Rs 179.9 billion, respectively. Between F...