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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Landlocked countries’ comparative advantage and services trade

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In a new policy working paper , Borchert et al. argue that protection of services sector (telecommunications and air transport) by landlocke...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

NTY 2011 reviewed: Year of half measures

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[It was published in Republica , January 10, 2012, p.6] Year of half measures Nepal Tourism Year ( NTY ) 2011 was launched with great ...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Merchandise exports and imports by development region in Nepal

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Here is an interesting chart that shows share of total merchandise exports and imports by development region during fiscal year 2010/11. Tot...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Evaluating Aid for Trade on the Ground: Lessons from Nepal

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Here is an abstract of a latest paper I co-authored. The paper assesses the effectiveness of the AfT initiative in Nepal. It demonstrat...

8th WTO Ministerial: Where’s the “early harvest”?

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In his opening address during the 8th Ministerial Conference in Geneva on December 15, 2011, the WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy called o...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Competitiveness of Nepalese Travel and Tourism Industry

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Nepal ranked 112 out of 139 economies in the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) 2011. See my earlier post on Nepal Tourism...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

What’s in the 17th SAARC Summit declaration?

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I forgot to upload this post before. It is a bit dated but is still relevant. The seventeenth summit of the South Asian Association for R...