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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Female migrants and income thresholds

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An interesting study based on household data in Sri Lanka by Sanjaya DeSilva . The author finds that while households with female migrants...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Emerging cities: Future economic centers of the world

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McKinsey Quarterly has an interesting analysis about the future economic centers of gravity in the world, i.e. cities. It also ranks emergi...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

New infrastructure and economic activities

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Here is an interesting news story about the multiplier effect from increased road connectivity. Want to boost local economic activities an...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Mid-year review of FY2013 budget scales back GDP growth to 4.1%

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The Ministry of Finance has released a mid-year review of budget for FY2013. At the outset note that this year Nepal is not having a full b...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Boosting capacities of existing firms to increase export growth

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A very interesting paper by Cebeci et al. based on Exporter Dynamics Database , which has measures on exporter characteristics and dynamic...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Employing India: Guaranteeing jobs for the rural poor

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Here are highlights from one of the latest published reports ( Employing India: Guaranteeing Jobs for the Rural Poor ) yours truly was invo...
Friday, February 8, 2013

How close is Nepal to achieving the MDGs?

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Since MDGs are coming to an end in 2015, global leaders, development agencies, CSOs and think-tanks are already talking about post-MDG frame...