Chandan Sapkota's blog

Owen Barder argues that poverty reduction should not be understood just as a wholesale concept of decreasing poverty through economic growt...

That’s the title of my latest op-ed published in Republica, the print version of www.myrepublica.com . I am not satisfied with the cont...

It is estimated that an additional 55 to 90 million people will be trapped in extreme poverty in 2009 due to the worldwide recession. The...

Is the Washington Consensus dead? Duflo on what works for AIDS prevention: abstinence or risk reduction Property rights and economic dev...

Interesting finding coming out of this paper , which shows greater returns among men than among women (in the microenterprise sector). This...

How on earth is Nepal supposed to increase exports by 50% in five years? Never mind, this is another criticism of the Maoist government’s hi...

Stiglitz argues for a global stimulus package with grants made available to the poor countries, else as much as 200 million people will go ...