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Monday, October 29, 2012

Doing Business 2013: No improvement in ease of doing business in Nepal

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In its latest Doing Business 2013 : Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises report, the IFC has ranked Singapore as the ...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Nepal has the highest minimum wage in South Asia?

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Workers affiliated to various trade unions have time and again gone on strike demanding hike in wages and allowances. The recurring row o...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Who shapes trade patterns?

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In a new paper , Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola argue that it is the top one percent of exporters that shape trade patters. Abst...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Comments on Immediate Governance and Economic Action Plan 2012

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On 16 October 2012, the BRB government unveiled I mmediate Governance and Economic Action Plan 2012 , which has 201 reform activities in 15...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

State of Hunger in South Asia, 2005-2010 (Global Hunger Index 2012)

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According to the Global Hunger Index 2012 , though hunger in Nepal is decreasing, it is still at "alarming" level. Nepal's hu...
Sunday, October 14, 2012

Trends shaping the world economy

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At the IMF-WB Annual Meeting in Tokyo, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, outlined the three megatrends the...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

Festival season economics

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Today’s TKP has interesting numbers related to income and expenditure shocks during festival season (Dashain, Tihar and Chhat): More tha...