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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Links of Interest (2011-07-12)

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1. De and Iacovone on Did NAFTA increase productivity? . “The results show that the North American Free Trade Agreement stimulated the pro...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Female reservation and political outcomes

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Deininger, Jin, Nagarajan and Fang (2011) find that in rural India gender quotas led to decline in quality and negative impact on service d...

Misplaced export incentives in Nepal

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My latest piece is about why cash incentive for exporters will not work when the binding constraints to exports growth and revenue are rela...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Political instability and economic growth in Nepal

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Here is Prem Khanal’s take on the relationship between political instability and economic growth. Here is what I argued about frequent pol...
Friday, July 8, 2011

More on remittances study in Nepal by the WB

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This blog post supplements an earlier detailed blog post about a recent report (forthcoming) based on Nepal Migration Survey (NMS) 2009. Af...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

How large is the government spending multiplier?

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This paper proposes a novel method of isolating fluctuations in public spending that are likely to be uncorrelated with contemporaneou...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Nepal’s policies and programs for 2011-2012 (FY 2068-2069)

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The Ministry of Finance has released Nepal’s policies and programs for the next fiscal year starting July 16, 2011 and ending July 15, 2012...