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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Determinants of manufacturing competitiveness

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Here is a nice chart that shows the determinants of manufacturing competitiveness . A combination of government action, manufacturing capabi...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Latest on India’s largest poverty alleviation and rural employment generation program: MGNREGS is working

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In a new working paper , Dutta, Murgai, Ravallion, and van de Walle argue that poorer families tend to have more demand for work on the sche...
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...