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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Financial sector exposure to real estate and housing markets in Nepal

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The sharp drop in real estate prices (conservatively estimated at 30% triggered by the slowdown in growth of remittances in 2011) put much ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Green growth and poverty

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Abstract of a very interesting paper that attempts to shed more light in the discussion surrounding green growth. The developing wor...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The state of cooperatives in Nepal

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The financial sector in Nepal is still adjusting to the jolt it experienced after the decline in real estate and housing prices in mid-201...
Friday, December 21, 2012

Illicit financial outflows from Nepal 2001-2010

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A latest report from Global Financial Integrity (GFI) has ranked Nepal 58 out of 143 countries in terms of average annual illicit financia...
Monday, December 17, 2012

Nepal has the highest minimum wage in South Asia? - Part II

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The blog post about changes in minimum wages in South Asia and the rapid rise in wages in Nepal, which meant that we might not have compar...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

How globally connected is Nepal?

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A report released last month, DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI) 2012 , ranks Nepal 133 out of 140 countries, the same as last year’s ran...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The state of energy security and access in Nepal

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We often hear that Nepal has a huge potential (and possibly comparative advantage) in hydropower generation. So far this has been a trigge...