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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

High (financial) cost of migration

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Here is a revealing piece on the global supply chains and how Nepalese migrant workers are related to it. The piece also tracks the ...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Structural Change in Vietnam

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Brian McCaig and Nina Pavcnik explore the structural change in Vietnam and argue that "changes in trade policy, expansion of employme...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Remittances in Nepal: Can a Good Thing Eventually Become Bad?

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Adapted from Future Development blog : Can a Good Thing Eventually Become Bad? Can a good thing eventually become bad and is there...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Doing Business 2014: Nepal ranked 105 out of 189 countries

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In its latest Doing Business 2014 : Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises, the IFC has ranked Singapore as the to...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Did India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Improve Welfare and Reduce Poverty?

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Abstract from a recent paper by  Deininger and Liu , who show that NREGA contributed to increase in consumption in the short run and and br...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Progress in reducing gender inequality

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Nepal has made consistent progress in reducing gender inequality, according to Global Gender Gap Report 2013 . However, much more needs to...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Potential synergy between tourism industry and export performance

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Reis and Varela  (full paper here ) argue that better tourism industry performance in Nepal could negate some of the costs associated with...