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Monday, October 28, 2013

Did India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Improve Welfare and Reduce Poverty?

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Abstract from a recent paper by  Deininger and Liu , who show that NREGA contributed to increase in consumption in the short run and and br...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Progress in reducing gender inequality

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Nepal has made consistent progress in reducing gender inequality, according to Global Gender Gap Report 2013 . However, much more needs to...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Potential synergy between tourism industry and export performance

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Reis and Varela  (full paper here ) argue that better tourism industry performance in Nepal could negate some of the costs associated with...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

How effective are awareness campaigns?

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Ravallion, van de Walle, Dutta and Murgai looked at the impact of awareness generation schemes for employment guarantee scheme in Bihar an...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

State of hunger in Nepal is improving (Global Hunger Index 2013)

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IFPRI has published the latest update on Global Hunger Index (GHI), which shows that hunger in Nepal has consistently declined since 1990. ...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

High housing prices in Kathmandu (most can’t afford)

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A new study, as reported in The Kathmandu Post , shows that the average price (in Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur) of a housing unit is Rs...
Monday, October 7, 2013

No blogging for a week more

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A short break from blogging. Traveling around India. Blogging may commence from next week.