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Friday, April 10, 2020

Stimulating demand in India through construction sector

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Raising demand through construction sector stimulus Ajay Shankar writes in Financial Express : [...]The construction sector has a large ...

Food subsidy, fiscal conundrum and mapping of migrant workers in India

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Excess stocks of the Food Corporation of India must be released to the poor Jean Dreze writes in The Indian Express : Everyone knows tha...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Financing COVID-19 related deficit in India and the impact of COVID-19 on Nepali economy

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Fiscal space: Not if but how In an op-ed published in Business Standard today (ungated version here ), Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subram...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Indian economy to slowdown in FY2021, high unemployment rate, and 1.25 billion workers at risk of losing jobs

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SBI pegs FY21 growth at 2.6%, say govt must monetize deficit From Business Standard : SBI house economists have pegged the growth forecast f...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Expenditure reallocation, shortage of workers in agriculture, thinking beyond the lockdown

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Government to divert Rs 136 billion budget to anti-Covid-19 measures From The Kathmandu Post : The government has decided to divert Rs 136 b...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Impact of COVID-19 in East Asia and the Pacific

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In its latest East Asia and Pacific Economic Monitor (April 2020) , the World Bank argues that COVID-19 presents an unusual combination of ...

IMF enhances debt relief trust to support low-income countries

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The IMF enhanced its Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) to enable the Fund to provide debt service relief for its poorest and ...