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Friday, July 29, 2011

Have we already achieved MDG target on poverty?

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In a latest policy brief , Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz of The Brookings Institution argue that the MDG target on halving global pove...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Land distribution and inequality in West Bengal

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This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decomp...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Nepal’s Monetary Policy for FY 2011-2012

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I forgot to post it even though I wrote it few days back. So, here it is, my take on the monetary policy for fiscal year 2011-2012. Major h...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Where is all the money going?

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Prithivi Man Shrestha reports that a large portion of the aid money that comes in the form technical assistance (TA) is unaccounted for in ...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Mainstreaming trade in Nepal: Trade policy, agricultural policy, and industrial policy compared

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A brief ( Policy Brief 6-- Nepal )  published by the FAO evaluates mainstreaming of trade by reviewing three different policies supporting t...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Population, Poverty, and Sustainable Development

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There is a very large but scattered literature debating the economic implications of high fertility. This paper reviews the literature o...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Third global review of Aid for Trade

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The WTO release third global review of Aid for Trade (AfT ). The report basically details the increase in AfT, its ‘effectiveness’ in Cape V...