Chandan Sapkota's blog

A latest WB report based on survey of about 150,000 people in 148 countries argues that 75 percent of adults earning less than US$2 a day d...

On the eve of UNCTAD XIII in Doha, Qatar from April 21 to April 26, UNCTAD released a statement strongly defending the role of “developmen...

In 2011, there were 1.92 million absentees (migrants), which represented 7.2 percent of total population of 26.6 million. In 2001, there we...

Bruckner and Lederman argue that within-country variations in trade openness cause economic growth. Specifically, a 1 percentage point incr...

Here are the PowerPoint slides of a study based on training manual prepared by SAWTEE (yours truly as well was heavily involved in preparin...

GDP growth in FY2011/12 estimated to be 4.63 percent . This is short of the 5 percent target set while rolling out the budget for the fiscal...

Here is an interesting chart from a WFP study in 2008 . It is hard to draw a definite conclusion from this chart. Overall, in-migration is h...