Chandan Sapkota's blog

Recent theoretical literature has suggested a variety of mechanisms through which poverty may deter growth and become self-perpetuating. A f...

Antoine Bouet and David Laborde, in a short IFPRI short brief , discuss tariffs rate in five different proposals that have evolved since 200...

Ramesh Chitrakar evaluates FDI policy and investment environment in Nepal in a new ADB report (see chapter 7 ). The report is about intra-r...

What happens when the demand for education outstrips supply for education? Well, there won’t be enough teachers and rooms to fit them all!...

There has been a lot of debate about the gains from the Doha Round . It was initially estimated that the developing countries would gain tre...

We explore the impact of elections on the quality of economic policy and governance in developing countries. We argue that not only do el...

China will become of the world’s largest economy in 2032 (but not in terms of income per capita!) Forecasting macroeconomic developments ...