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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Exports sophistication of Nepal

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Finally, I have a stable internet connection at my place, at least for now (for how long? don’t ask!) I will now be updating this blog more ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Links of Interest (08/09/2010)

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Prem Khanal argues that deposit is interest elastic in Nepal and proposes an interest floor at 7 percent. “However, many economic commen...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Future of Nepal’s exports

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My latest op-ed is about the future of Nepal’s exports. I will post an extended version of this article in next blog post. I am a bit opt...
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Ravallion and Alkire on Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)

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Martin Ravallion on Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)-- via Duncan Green's blog . For introductory reading on MPI see this blog entr...
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), ...