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Monday, May 24, 2021

What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?

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Abstract from a NBER working paper by Edward L. Glaeser on lessons on urbanization for developing cities: The downsides of density, includi...
Friday, May 21, 2021

A Proposal to End the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Abstract from a latest IMF Staff Discussion Note by Ruchir Agarwal and Gita Gopinath: Urgent steps are needed to arrest the rising human to...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Nepal's economic performance in FY2021 and outlook for FY2022

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It was published in The Kathmandu Post , 17 May 2020.  The economy has been eroding Given the rapid spread of Covid-19, CBS’s growth project...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Effect of fiscal expansion and adjustment on sustainable development

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Aizenman et al (2021) outline four stylized patterns from large fiscal impulses (expansions and adjustments) in Chile, Poland, South Africa...
Monday, May 10, 2021

CBS projects Nepal's GDP to grow at 4.0% in FY2021

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On 30 April 2021, Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) estimated that Nepal’s economy will likely grow by 4% in FY2021 , up from 2.1% contract...
Friday, April 16, 2021

COVID-19 related economic scarring

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The IMF’s WEO April 2021 includes a chapter on the possible persistent effects of the pandemic on economic activities (scarring). It notes...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Divergent recovery and policy options

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In the latest edition of World Economic Outlook ( WEO, April 2021 ), the IMF states that without the extraordinary fiscal and monetary polic...