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Monday, April 23, 2012

Trade and Development Reports, 1981-2011 [The defense of UNCTAD]

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UNCTAD has released a report looking back at the series of Trade and Development Reports it has been publishing annually since 1981. It bo...

Elite capture of fuel subsidies

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There is a long running debate over elite capture of blanket, across-the-board subsidies in developing countries. Subsidies are primarily me...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Market manipulation by syndicates and cartels in Nepal

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[Published in Republica , April 21, 2012, p.6] Syndicated distortion There are syndicates and cartels in pretty much all lucrative sect...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Challenges to investment in South Asia

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[It was published in Trade Insight , Vol.8, No.1, 2012, pp.30-32.] Challenges to investment in South Asia Due to economic slowdown, hig...

MDGs target to reduce mortality rates of children under five and mothers won’t be met

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Here is what Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2012 says about achievement of MDGs so far: GMR 2012: Food Prices, Nutrition and the Mill...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Access to finance in Nepal

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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...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

UNCTAD bats for the role of government in development

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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...