Chandan Sapkota's blog

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts abou...

Relative productivity of agriculture exhibits a U-shaped pattern over the course of development, argues Rodrik. Labor productivity first fa...

Abstracts of two latest working papers from the Levy Economics Institute. Lessons from the Great Recession (Pavlina R. Tcherneva 2011): ...

My latest piece is about the rising food prices in Nepal and what can be done about it. I tie up food security in Nepal with internation...

In South Asia, Maldives has the highest trade deficit (% of GDP), followed by Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India. Bhutan is...

What happens if traders directly purchase vegetables from farmers and then they themselves sell it in the market (and deprive of others from...

What happens when countries move from closed to open societies? Ian Bremmer argues that you get a “powerful political phenomenon” called th...