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Joseph Stiglitz talks about the economics of information

Today Finance Minister of Nepal Baburam Bhattarai presented budget of around Rs 236 billion ($3.23 billion) to the parliament. As expected,...

Jayati Ghosh opines that the current economic slowdown, triggered by the crisis in the Wall Sts starting last year, would affect the poor p...

I have already discussed about the Doing Business 2009 report in a previous blog post . More on the report here . Here, I will focus on Nep...

Sanjay Reddy , in a new one pager from the IPC, argues that the new global poverty estimate ($1.25 a day) just digs dipper into the pitfall...

Stiglitz sees a pattern of deep systemic problems in the events leading to a series of bankruptcy and state bail outs in the economy. In an...

Here is a brief analysis from the Institute for Development Studies (IfDS): ...The share price of the commercial banks listed in the s...