Chandan Sapkota's blog

On 23 May 2023, Nepali and Indian authorities signed a 5-year (medium-term) agreement that will allow Nepal to sell an additional 200 MW of ...

According to Reuters , India will likely face risks of nighttime power cuts due to delays in adding new coal-fired and hydropower despite th...

An interesting article in the NYT on how India's homegrown payment system has transformed commerce and helped formalize the economy. Ex...

In its 2022 Article IV consultation report on India, the IMF noted that the economy rebounded strongly from the pandemic-related downturn, ...

Carbon pricing or taxation is a popular climate change mitigation strategy.  However, the distributional effect seems to be different depend...

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

In a paper published in the latest edition of Asian Development Review (Vol.38. No.1), Islam, Newhouse and Yanex-Pagans   study how differe...

In its report for 2021-26 , the 15th Finance Commission of India states that public debt as a share of GDP should continue to serve as the ...

According to the latest estimates released by NSO , the Indian economy grew y-o-y by 0.4% in the third quarter of FY2021 (October to Decembe...

As announced by the finance minister in the FY2022 budget speech, the Indian government is aiming to monetize 100 government-owned assets ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman  presented INR 34.8 trillion expenditure plan  [USD 476.8 billion, USD 1 = INR  73.05  as on Feb 1) for ...

Subramanian and Felman on the inherited problems, macro-economic stability, and "hardware" and software" of economic reforms...

The first advance estimate of economic activities in FY2021 (April 2020 to March 2021) released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Imp...

Restructuring stressed loans in India Ramal Bandyopadhaya writes in Business Standard that the RBI's decision to allow restructuring of...