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Thursday, May 2, 2013

India’s existing economic institutions could not cope with strong growth: Raghuram Rajan

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Raghuram Rajan, the chief economic adviser to India’s Ministry of Finance, argues that economic growth slowed down in India due to two rea...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Urbanization and politics in Bangalore

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Here is an interesting article about the urbanization challenge in Bangalore, the IT hub of India, that has a population of 8 million and ...
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Nepal-India Trade: State of non-tariff barriers

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[ This blog post is sourced from one of the studies (workshop presentation slides here ) yours truly was involved in about a year ago while...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Capital spending and economic growth in Nepal

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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?

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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?

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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

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