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Thursday, February 4, 2021

Quick overview of India's FY2022 budget

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman  presented INR 34.8 trillion expenditure plan  [USD 476.8 billion, USD 1 = INR  73.05  as on Feb 1) for ...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

Vietnam as a rising star in global supply chains

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Cheap labor costs, big investment incentives, political and policy stability, and strong trade relations appeal Vietnam as an alternative in...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic pushed 1.2 million people below the poverty line in Nepal

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According to a news report , which cites a recent study done by National Planning Commission, supply, demand and income shocks due to the CO...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Tradeoff between AI and jobs

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Excerpts from an interesting piece on the jobs displacement effect of AI from The Economist ( 16 January 2021 edition ): The robots are ind...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Hardware and software of economic reforms in India

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Subramanian and Felman on the inherited problems, macro-economic stability, and "hardware" and software" of economic reforms...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

Indian economy to contract by 7.7% in FY2021

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The first advance estimate of economic activities in FY2021 (April 2020 to March 2021) released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Imp...
Monday, December 14, 2020

What induces inclusive growth?

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In an article in VoxEU, Jalles and de Mello argue  (related paper in Review of Development Economics ) that episodes of inclusive growth are...