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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

NEPAL: Macroeconomic outlook for FY2018

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The previous blog post covered the major macroeconomic highlights in FY2017. This blog post will provide an outlook for FY2018 (mid-July 2...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Brief snapshot of Nepalese economy in FY2017

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Since the full year FY2017 (mid-July 2016 to mid-July 2017) provisional data is available, except for some public finance variables, this p...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

India after demonetization (growth, public finance and inflation)

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A lot has been written about the impact of the demonetization shock on 8 November 2016 in India. PM Narendra Modi's government took a ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Nepal's central bank needs younger talents

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It was published in The Kathmandu Post , 07 August 2017 Errant NRB Nepal Rastra Bank needs to be objective and pragmatic to mainta...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Why does the government under-execute capital budget?

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Towards the last quarter of fiscal year, pretty much everyone talks about slow capital spending . Parliamentary committees issue notices/in...
Monday, July 31, 2017

NEA's improving balance sheet, excess liquidity, & justified CA deficit in India

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NEA's improving balance sheet After years of very high net losses , NEA was able to decrease losses to NRs970 million in FY2017, do...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Bloated budget, challenging implementation

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It was published in The Kathmandu Post , 5 June 2017. Here is an earlier blog post on FY2018 budget (same in NEF blog ). The latest issue ...