Pages

▼
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Capital spending and economic growth in Nepal

›
This blog post is adapted from the issue focus of the ADB’s latest Macroeconomic Update (April 2013).   Need to accelerate capital spen...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Renewable energy diffusion in Asia: Can it happen without government support?

›
Below is an abstract of one of my research papers (co-authored) recently published in Energy Policy journal: Renewable energy diffusion in...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Can revenue catch up with rising recurrent expenditure?

›
Expenditures are already high and rising fast in Nepal. For FY2013, recurrent expenditure allocation is 68.9% of total budget of Rs 404.8 b...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Nepal-India Trade: State of para-tariff barriers

›
[ This blog post is sourced from one of the studies (workshop presentation slides here ) yours truly was involved in about a year ago while...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Nepal’s FY2013 budget brief

›
The government finally released a full budget (in 9th month!) for FY2013. On 9 April 2013, the President endorsed Appropriation Ordinance ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

ADB forecasts Nepal’s GDP to grow by 3.5% in FY2013

›
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in its flagship publication Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2013 released today, forecasted Nepal’s GDP ...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

CBS projects GDP growth at 3.6% in FY2013 in Nepal

›
The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released its annual national account estimate on 5 April 2013, projecting GDP at basic prices to gro...