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Monday, January 16, 2012

Government sponsored think tanks in Nepal

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PM Baburam Bhattarai feels that the country needs think tanks to give inputs to the government on matters related to foreign affairs and ec...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Recommendations of Nepal’s PM’s Economic Advisory Council

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Main priorities as suggested by the PM’s Economic Advisory Council are as follow: Tourism Real estate outside Kathmandu Agriculture...
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...