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Friday, March 16, 2012

Extractive political and economic institutions are the reasons why Nepal is poor

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So say Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. The interesting question now is that if extractive political institutions are breeding extractive ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

India’s GDP growth rate in 2011-12 estimated at 6.9% (7.6% in 2012-13 & 8.6% in 2013-14)

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The latest Economic Survey 2011/12 released by India’s Ministry of Finance states that GDP growth rate for 2011/12 is estimated at 6.9% (f...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Countries offering Preferential Trade Arrangements (PTA) to Nepal

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Here is a chart that shows twelve countries and one economic bloc offering PTAs to Nepal . They are Australia, Canada, EU, Iceland, Japan, N...
Friday, March 9, 2012

24.8% of population earn less than US$1.25 a day in Nepal (latest year 2010)

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[This is an update to this blog post . I will put up comparable data for South Asian countries soon]. Here I will focus on the latest pove...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Total convertible foreign exchange income of Nepal

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Here are interesting charts showing total convertible foreign exchange income of Nepal over the past six years. The total convertible foreig...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Crisis divides macroeconomic schools of thought

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Here is Simon Wren-Lewis over at VoxEu : So why have schools of thought within mainstream macroeconomics returned? One simple story ...
Friday, March 2, 2012

What drives sophistication of production and exports?

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Anand, Mishra and Spatafora argue that “ an educated workforce, external liberalization, and good information flows are important prerequis...