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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Export promotion works!

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The number of national export promotion agencies has tripled over the past two decades. Although more countries made them part of their e...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Gains from regional integration in South Asia

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Regional cooperation can be the key instrument to promote increased market integration in South Asia through greater flow of goods, servi...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Labor dispute chases away FDI from Nepal!

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Exactly the kind of thing the Nepalese economy does not want right now: Amid worsening business conditions created mainly by Maoist-aff...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

Regional integration in South Asia and export-led growth in Nepal

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In my latest op-ed I look at if regional integration in SAARC (and BIMSTEC) would be better for Nepal or from the whole WTO bloc. Given ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Does poverty affect growth?

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Recent theoretical literature has suggested a variety of mechanisms through which poverty may deter growth and become self-perpetuating. A f...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

Evolution of various proposals under the Doha Round

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Antoine Bouet and David Laborde, in a short IFPRI short brief , discuss tariffs rate in five different proposals that have evolved since 200...
Saturday, November 28, 2009

FDI policy and investment climate in Nepal

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