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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Fostering competitive spirit among federal states

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Milan Vaishnav of Carnegie Endowment explains the lack competition in good policy formulation, experimentation and implementation among In...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Trade finance gap in Asia is estimated at $425 billion

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Based on a survey conducted in the fourth quarter of 2012 to identify and quantify gaps in trade finance, the Asian Development Bank (ADB),...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Does export promotion programs work in long term?

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The evaluation of export promotion program in Tunisia shows that while beneficiaries initially saw faster export growth and greater divers...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

Chart of the week: Favored channels of ODA delivery in fragile and non-fragile nations

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Below is an illustrative chart (sourced from OECD’s publication Fragile States: Resource Flows and Trends ) that shows the amount of aid mo...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

NEPAL: Interesting flights data in FY2012

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Here are interesting stats that I picked up from Sangam ’s article in The Kathmandu Post : Domestic passenger movement dropped 0.55 per...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Value added trade and global value chains

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The global trade landscape is changing along with the development of sophisticated global value chains (intra-firm or inter-firm, regional o...
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...