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Thursday, September 29, 2011

The demand for subsidized rice in Nepal

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The picture says it all. Caption says: People thronging at Nepal Food Corporation depot in Dailekh. The state-owned depot is providing sub...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

High Food Prices in South Asia: Status, Impact and Solution

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Below is a presentation I made during South Asian consultation on ‘ Food Justice in a Resource Constrained South Asia ’, 26-27 September. Th...

Latest population estimate of Nepal (26.6 million)

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The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has published preliminary findings of Census 2011. Surprisingly, total population in Nepal is found t...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Distorted economic advise and selfish politician

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This paper investigates, in a simplified macro context, the joint determination of the (incorrect) perceived model and the eq...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Unusually high wage overheads & low labor productivity in Nepal

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The chart says it all. Nepal has the highest labor cost in South Asia and probably the lowest labor productivity . Where is our labor cos...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Four million missing women each year in developing countries

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The latest World Development Report 2012 (Gender Equality and Development) argues that “countries that create better opportunities for wome...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Over five decades of experience with SEZs

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A nice review (by Thomas Farole) of what we have learned from special economics zones (SEZs) in the past 50 years. SEZs are primarily aimed...