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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Fiscal decentralization and local public services delivery

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Abstract from a NBER working paper by Bianchi et al (2021) : Fiscal decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services,...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Agriculture productivity shocks and nonagricultural employment in India

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Abstract from Jonathan Colmer's published paper in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , 13(4):101-24 To what degree can labor ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Short-term priorities for the economy

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It was published in The Kathmandu Post , 09 August 2021. Short-term priorities for the economy The focus now should be on executing the budg...

Brief highlights from IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report

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AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis , the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report submitted by Working Group I is out now. The repor...
Friday, July 30, 2021

Conditional or unconditional convergence

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In their latest NBER working paper on economic convergence, Kremer, Willis and You (2021) argue that there was a trend towards unconditiona...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Entry and exit of informal firms

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In a latest NBER working paper, McCaig and Pavcnik (2021) present several stylized facts about entry and exit of informal firms using a nat...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Nepal's largest hydropower project starts operation

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Nepal's 456 MW Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project started operation on July 5, 2021 from one of its six 76-MW units. Nepal will likely h...