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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

NEPAL: Recent macroeconomic analysis

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[ This write-up is adapted from economic analysis of ADB's Nepal Country Partnership Strategy 2013-2017 . ] A. Overview 1. De...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Empowerment Line based poverty stands at 56% in India, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)

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McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has come up with the Empowerment Line  (full report here ), an analytical framework that determines the lev...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Quality of electricity supply and income growth

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Interesting finding of a new study by  Chakravorty and Pelli (2013) , who show that 16% increase in households connected to the grid led to...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

NEPAL: 633,000 people to enter job market annually by 2020

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In its Least Developed Counties Report 2013 , UNCTAD argues that the number of young people of working age in Nepal is currently increasing...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Nepal’s sovereign (shadow) credit rating in 2012

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Nepal does not have a sovereign credit rating and it does not borrow from the international financial markets. A large part of its budget g...

Locational and technological transformation to overcome labor costs in manufacturing sector

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Very interesting article about manufacturing competitiveness over at Mckinsey . It argues that the “ proximity to demand and innovative sup...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Challenges to growth

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Michael Spence lays out the steps to overcome the challenges to growth (mostly in developed countries): First, expectations are or h...