Impact of trade blockade

Impact of trade blockade on inflation and external sector Earlier, I briefly gave an outline of the impact of trade blockade on governm...

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Earthquake and Blockade: A wrecked Nepalese economy

Earthquake and economy The catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 25 April and subsequent aftershocks (two of them very strong) crippled t...

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Migration, remittances and balance of payments post April 25 earthquake in Nepal

This is adapted from Macroeconomic Update, August 2015, Vol.3, No.2 (executive summary here , and FY2016 growth and inflation outlook here ...

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[Interview] Nepal quakes 'severely disrupted all economic activities'

This blog post is adapted from an interview published in Deutsche Welle (DW) on 26 May 2015. An earlier updated economic outlook following ...

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Updated economic outlook following Nepal’s earthquake

This blog post is adapted from a 3 post-disaster blog posts on Asian Development Blog. Here are parts 1 , 2 and 3 . In a blog post on 1...

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Understanding the impact of the Nepal earthquake on priority affected districts (Part II)

In the preceding blog post , I focused on aspects such as area, population, share in national production, share in agricultural and manufact...

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