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Monday, March 28, 2022

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis and unsustainable public debt

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The IMF’s latest 2021 Article IV Consultation report on Sri Lanka sheds light on the challenging public debt position and deteriorating mac...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Post pandemic economic recovery in Nepal

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It was published in The Kathmandu Post , 14 March 2022. Medium-term economic recovery A course correction beyond the band-aid nature of poli...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Impact of fiscal rules on subnational government spending

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Interesting research by Carreri and Martinez on the impact of fiscal rules at the subnational level in Colombia. Briefly, it reduced oversp...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Fiscal decentralization and local public services delivery

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Abstract from a NBER working paper by Bianchi et al (2021) : Fiscal decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services,...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Agriculture productivity shocks and nonagricultural employment in India

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Abstract from Jonathan Colmer's published paper in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , 13(4):101-24 To what degree can labor ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Short-term priorities for the economy

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It was published in The Kathmandu Post , 09 August 2021. Short-term priorities for the economy The focus now should be on executing the budg...

Brief highlights from IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report

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AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis , the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report submitted by Working Group I is out now. The repor...