Chandan Sapkota's blog

Corruption at custom check points between Nepal and India border is an accepted practice now—just ask the traders how much they have to pay ...

Using Indonesia Family Life Survey, this WB policy research working paper shows that return to upper secondary schooling in Indonesia is as...

This paper combines firm-level data from 89 countries with updated country-level data on financial structure, and uses two estimation ap...

Inflation rate in Nepal reached double-digit for three consecutive years now and is now just above 9 percent. What are sources of inflation ...

[This was published in Republica , November 12, 2011, p.6] Policy implementation paralysis Here is a snapshot of the current sta...

My presentation on policy study on cash incentives for export promotion in Nepal. The event was organized by the FAO. Here is my earlier tak...

Turns out BRICs lend more to low income countries with weaker institutions. Interestingly, interests on loans are higher for countries that ...