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Showing posts with label Agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agriculture. Show all posts
Friday, April 28, 2023

Mechanization and agricultural productivity

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An interesting news report in today's Kantipur Daily . It quotes a farmer using a preseason maize planter who says that mechanization ha...
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...
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 ...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

CBS projects Nepal's GDP to contract by 1.9% in FY2020 (using new base, FY2011=100)

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On 4 March 2021, Nepal’s Central  Bureau of Statistics released national accounts statistics that were rebased to 2010/11 (FY2011) from ear...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Key highlights of Nepal's 15th five-year plan (FY2020-FY2024)

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National Planning Commission recently published the 15th five-year plan (FY2020-FY2024) taking also into account the effect of COVID-19 pan...
Monday, August 17, 2020

INR 1 trillion Agriculture Infrastructure Fund in India

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On August 9, PM Modi launched the Rs 1 lakh crore Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) to be used over the next four years.  This article i...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Rural resurgence in India and impact of QE on emerging markets

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A rural resurgence will fuel India's economic recovery Shantanu Nandan Sharma writes in The Economic Times that rural economy will...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Impact of lockdown on employment, remittances and food security in Nepal

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Measuring the human cost of lockdown in Nepal Mushfiq Mobarak, Bishal Chalise and Corey Vernot write in Nepali Times :   One of us (M...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Actual fiscal stimulus in India

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On 12 May 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a special economic package worth INR 20 lakh crore (INR 20 trillion or about USD 267...