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Friday, August 26, 2011

The US Ambassador to Nepal reads Nepali economy better than our own policymakers and analysts

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The US Ambassador to Nepal, Scott H Delisi, delivered a speech yesterday in Kathmandu. I did not attend the program but did go through his s...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Does high food prices cause political instability?

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  Lagi, Bertrand and Bar-Yam show that the timing of violent protests in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011 as well as earlier riots ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Retail prices of wheat and rice in South Asia

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The charts below show retail prices of wheat and rice in one major city of each South Asian country (except for Maldives for which there is...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Nepal’s sovereign rating

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Nepal does not have a sovereign rating. Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s, and Fitch, the three international rating agencies, have not rated N...

Transatlantic economies whipsawed by globalization

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Jeff Sachs writes : A failure of economic strategy and leadership lies behind the near simultaneous collapse of market confidence in th...

Labor issues cost closure of another garment factory in Nepal

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The beleaguered Nepalese garment industry has lost one of the top performs —Surya Nepal, which produces popular international brand John Pl...

Poverty declined in Bangladesh from 40% to 31.5% in five years

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Absolute poverty in Bangladesh dropped to 31.5 per cent in 2010, reflecting an 8.5 percentage point decline in the last five years, accordi...