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Friday, March 9, 2012

24.8% of population earn less than US$1.25 a day in Nepal (latest year 2010)

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[This is an update to this blog post . I will put up comparable data for South Asian countries soon]. Here I will focus on the latest pove...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Total convertible foreign exchange income of Nepal

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Here are interesting charts showing total convertible foreign exchange income of Nepal over the past six years. The total convertible foreig...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Crisis divides macroeconomic schools of thought

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Here is Simon Wren-Lewis over at VoxEu : So why have schools of thought within mainstream macroeconomics returned? One simple story ...
Friday, March 2, 2012

What drives sophistication of production and exports?

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Anand, Mishra and Spatafora argue that “ an educated workforce, external liberalization, and good information flows are important prerequis...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

1.29 billion people below US$1.25 a day in 2008

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The latest update by the WB shows that an estimated 1.29 billion people in 2008 lived below $1.25 a day (2005 PPP), equivalent to 22 percen...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Where is the danger of political polarization and extremism greater?

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It is greatest in countries with: relatively recent histories of democracy, existing right-wing extremist parties, and electoral syste...

Creeping prices: What determines food and nonfood prices in Nepal?

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[It is published in today’s Republica , p.6]. Creeping prices In the mid-term review of monetary policy, the central bank argued that ...