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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Easterly's lesson on development economics

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As always, Easterly gibes at the development aid community (depression mindset of the development community) obsessed with for forever foc...

XDR TB: The Forgotten Plague

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The dangers of another health epidemic (Extensively Drug-Resistant TB). The good news is that it is preventable but more consolidated effort...
Friday, October 3, 2008

Lessons from the US financial crisis to the Nepali financial sector

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Here is a nice article from my colleague (we worked worked together at The Kathmandu Post business desk back in 2004/05) Santosh Pokharel,...
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Is the Indian growth rate sustainable?

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No! according to this piece which puts doubts on the sustainability of Indian economic growth rate, which the author argues is more cyclica...

Financial meltdown and the developing countries: the Philippines revises down economic growth rate

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Here it comes the impact of the financial meltdown on developing countries. Economic growth in the Philippines has been revised down (by a...
Monday, September 29, 2008

The role of institutions and hydro power development in Nepal

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In Nepal, everyone is talking about hydropower development to the tune of 10,000 MW in the next 10 years. This was in fact rightly prioritiz...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

The impact of financial meltdown in the West on the developing nations

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The ADB raises the alarm for South Asian bond market amidst the financial meltdown in the West. …As global credit markets tighten in th...