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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Middlemen are manipulating agriculture market in Nepal

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[This piece was published in Republica , October 2, 2011, p.6] Manipulation of Food Market The Department of Commerce (DoC) has bee...

Eroding cost competitiveness of Nepalese carpet

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Due to the rise in the cost of labor, wool, cotton and interest rate, cost of production of carpet has increased by more than 50 percent ove...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Keynesianism saved us from experiencing another global Great Depression

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So, says a paper by Lim and Sng . The paper discusses and pinpoints three strategic factors that led to the global Great Depression of...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

The demand for subsidized rice in Nepal

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The picture says it all. Caption says: People thronging at Nepal Food Corporation depot in Dailekh. The state-owned depot is providing sub...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

High Food Prices in South Asia: Status, Impact and Solution

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Below is a presentation I made during South Asian consultation on ‘ Food Justice in a Resource Constrained South Asia ’, 26-27 September. Th...

Latest population estimate of Nepal (26.6 million)

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The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has published preliminary findings of Census 2011. Surprisingly, total population in Nepal is found t...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Distorted economic advise and selfish politician

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This paper investigates, in a simplified macro context, the joint determination of the (incorrect) perceived model and the eq...