Chandan Sapkota's blog

The Terai region is considered as the ‘bread basket’ of Nepal. However, it too is facing deficit food production this year. Even the ten maj...

The largest population in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is 151.3 million in NIGERIA . The smallest is 0.1 million (100,000) in Seychelles . T...

Structural change happens when an economy shifts its sources of growth and employment from agriculture to non-agriculture activities. As fac...

This blog post is adapted from Robert C. Feenstra’s 1 summary of research of the International Trade and Investment (ITI) Program at NBER....

We study linkages between financial development, international trade, and long-run growth using data since 1880 for seventeen now-devel...

[This was published in The Week , Republica National daily, May 20, 2011, p.10] Changes are coming to Nepal Chandan Sapkota & Rita ...

Derek Headey doubts the existing literature and analysis on food crisis and argues that the negative impacts of higher food prices in 2007-...