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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Conflict and development in South Asia

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Ghani and Iyer have a good note on the relationship between conflict and development in South Asia. This blog post is just jutting down of ...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Sachs vs. Easterly over MDGs, again!

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Jeffrey Sachs bats for “multi-donor pooled funding that has clear timelines, objectives and accountability”. We need a major change of...

The human cost of Maoist insurgency in Nepal

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Preliminary estimates  (number): Killed -  16,791 Disappeared - 1,327 Internally displaced - 78,708 Widowed - 9,000 Disabled - 4,305 P...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Neoclassical models (plus economists) failed!

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A good narrative about how neoclassicals and rational expectationists assumed general equilibrium in everything (and created an economic me...
Sunday, September 19, 2010

Consequences of high-skilled “brain drain”

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This paper presents the results of innovative surveys which tracked academic high-achievers from five countries to wherever they moved in...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Nepalese economy still stuck in mess

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My latest piece is based on the latest macroeconomic review  2009/10 published by the central bank of Nepal. My point is that despite subst...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

South Asia (and Nepal) in 2012

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What would South Asia look like two years from now? The World Bank’s GEP has forecast for some of the South Asian countries. Nepal is expect...