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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Global trade after the financial meltdown

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A picture worth thousand words! The downfall of world merchandise trade during the crisis. Good news is that it is again picking up after ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

New measure of structural transformation: Index of Opportunities

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Abdon, Felipe and Kumar have used Hidalgo et al. (2007) and Hausmann et al. (2007) ’s concept of product space to come up with an “ Index o...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

(Failing to) Read Keynesian economics correctly…

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Read today's piece by Niall Ferguson , who frets about  warlike spending during no-war time (but forgets about the depression economy), ...
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 ...