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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Making fiscal policy effective

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Abstracts of two latest working papers from the Levy Economics Institute. Lessons from the Great Recession (Pavlina R. Tcherneva 2011): ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Trade & Food Security in Nepal

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My latest piece is about the rising food prices in Nepal and what can be done about it. I tie up food security in Nepal with internation...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Trade balance in South Asia

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In South Asia, Maldives has the highest trade deficit (% of GDP), followed by Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India. Bhutan is...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Monopsony in factor market and monopoly in product market

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What happens if traders directly purchase vegetables from farmers and then they themselves sell it in the market (and deprive of others from...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

The political J-curve

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What happens when countries move from closed to open societies? Ian Bremmer argues that you get a “powerful political phenomenon” called th...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Trade in intermediates

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Shim and Uri write: “The imported intermediate input content accounts for about one-quarter of OECD economies’ exports, and the European Ce...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Are services exports competitive than merchandise exports in Nepal?

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The governor of Nepal Rastra Bank, Dr. Yuba Raj Khatiwada, argues that services exports are more competitive than merchandise exports in th...