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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Balance of payments surplus at Rs 2.93 billion in FY2010/11

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The latest update from the central bank shows that Nepal had a balance of payments (BoP) surplus of Rs 2.93 billion in fiscal year 2010/11 ...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Can there be convergence between developed and developing countries?

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The question addressed in this paper is whether the gap in performance between the developed and developing worlds can continu...

Public investment efficiency in developing countries

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Dabla-Norris et al. (2011) construct Public Investment Management Index (PIMI) that benchmarks the quality and efficiency of the investment...
Friday, September 2, 2011

Trade policy, domestic agri policy and food security

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Excerpts from the WTO Director General Pascal Lamy’s address to the XIIIth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists....
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Update on poverty in South Asia, 2008-2010

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A new ADB Economics Working Paper (by Guanghua Wan and Iva Sebastian) estimates the percentage and number of poor people living on less tha...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Imprudent unions & weak industries of Nepal

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This was published in Republica , August 27, 2011. For an earlier discussion on the same issue, please check this blog post . Imprudent ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Impact of infrastructure spending on household welfare in rural Nepal

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Did expenditure on access to rural roads irrigation infrastructure, and extension services have significant impact on household welfare over...