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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Why Planning Fails (and ‘failed’) in Nepal?

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I stumbled upon a 1972 paper written by Aaron Wildavsky— then dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley— and published in A...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Mid-term FY2014: Disappointing progress in planned government spending

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The Ministry of Finance (MOF) released the mid-term review of FY2014 budget.  Despite the timely full budget, the government has been unab...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

NEPAL: Recent macroeconomic analysis

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[ This write-up is adapted from economic analysis of ADB's Nepal Country Partnership Strategy 2013-2017 . ] A. Overview 1. De...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Empowerment Line based poverty stands at 56% in India, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)

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McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has come up with the Empowerment Line  (full report here ), an analytical framework that determines the lev...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Quality of electricity supply and income growth

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Interesting finding of a new study by  Chakravorty and Pelli (2013) , who show that 16% increase in households connected to the grid led to...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

NEPAL: 633,000 people to enter job market annually by 2020

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In its Least Developed Counties Report 2013 , UNCTAD argues that the number of young people of working age in Nepal is currently increasing...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Nepal’s sovereign (shadow) credit rating in 2012

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Nepal does not have a sovereign credit rating and it does not borrow from the international financial markets. A large part of its budget g...