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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Evaluating Aid for Trade on the Ground: Lessons from Nepal

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Here is an abstract of a latest paper I co-authored. The paper assesses the effectiveness of the AfT initiative in Nepal. It demonstrat...

8th WTO Ministerial: Where’s the “early harvest”?

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In his opening address during the 8th Ministerial Conference in Geneva on December 15, 2011, the WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy called o...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Competitiveness of Nepalese Travel and Tourism Industry

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Nepal ranked 112 out of 139 economies in the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) 2011. See my earlier post on Nepal Tourism...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

What’s in the 17th SAARC Summit declaration?

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I forgot to upload this post before. It is a bit dated but is still relevant. The seventeenth summit of the South Asian Association for R...
Monday, January 2, 2012

Nepal Tourism Year 2011 concludes short of target

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The much hyped Nepal Tourism Year (NTY) 2011 came to an end yesterday. When the campaign was launched in 2010 , the target was to attract on...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Does interest rate channel work? Evidence from Ghana

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In short, it won’t work as expected. Why? Because of information asymmetries and imperfect markets. Here is the abstract from a recent paper...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Nepal’s problems with exports

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[It published in The Week, Republica , December 30, 2011, p.9] Nepal’s problems with exports Trade is one of the most vital components...