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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Interesting results from Nepal's Agriculture Census 2011/12

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The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released the National Sample Census of Agriculture Nepal 2011/12 in December 2013. The decennial c...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Economic agenda of major political parties in Nepal

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Prior to the second Constituent Assembly (CA) election on 19 November 2013, the major political parties published their election manifestos...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

NEPAL: Mid-fiscal year 2014 macroeconomic review

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The positive political outlook, expected increase in agriculture production following the favorable monsoon, modest improvement in cap...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Why Planning Fails (and ‘failed’) in Nepal?

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I stumbled upon a 1972 paper written by Aaron Wildavsky— then dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley— and published in A...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Mid-term FY2014: Disappointing progress in planned government spending

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The Ministry of Finance (MOF) released the mid-term review of FY2014 budget.  Despite the timely full budget, the government has been unab...
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...