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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) -- Nepal edition
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The UNDP and OPHI have come up with a new measure of poverty— Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) — that will be used (rather update) the ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Hans Rosling on global population growth
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He argues that living standard of the poorest has to be improved in order to check population growth. The population of the world i...
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Who reads Hayek correctly? Sachs or Easterly?
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My econ professors Andrew Farrant and Edward McPhail , Dickinson College, argue that Jeff Sachs was right in interpreting Hayek's view...
Nepal's fiscal budget 2010/11 & Economic Survey 2009/10
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There is hardly anything to say about the “ special budget ” worth Rs 110.21 billion rolled out by the caretaker government. It is meant to ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Has Nepal exhausted the sources of growth?
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Not really. But the government officials tend to think so. They are making high pitch over implementing import-substituting and import ...
Reading research papers 101
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Excellent piece from Daniel Drezner. Below is his recommendation. Read the full discussion here . 1) If you can't read the abstract, do...
Dani Rodrik on the ideology of markets
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"Unlike economists and politicians, markets have no ideology. As long as they make money they do not care if they have to eat their wo...
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