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Op-eds and Commentaries:
Is Nepali export passé?, February 28, 2010, Republica
Don't forget the starving poor, February 18, 2010, Republica (related blog here)
High Costs of Nepal banda (Nepali version), February 9, 2010, Nagarik, (related blog here)
Costs of Nepal bandas, January 30, 2010, Republica (related blog here)
Book review: Unleashing Nepal, January 30, 2010, The Kathmandu Post (related blog here)
Demise of garment industry, January 19, 2010, Republica (related blog here)
Dahal's trade deficit, December 30, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Strike-unemployment cycle, December 17, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Regional integration & growth, December 2, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Futile efforts, November 10, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Don't prolong death of NDB, October 23, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
State of no reform, October 1, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Is Nepal gaining from WTO?, September 9, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Nepal's aid industry, August 20, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Sticky inflation & policy options, August 6, 2009, Republica, (related blog here)
Book review: Return of Depression Economics, Trade Insight, Vol.5, No.2, June-July, 2009, South Asia Watch on Trade, Econoimcs & Environment (SAWTEE)
Budget lacks focus: Macro issues in mammoth budget, July 20, 2009, Republica (related blog here and here)
Dismal progress in trade facilitation, July 14,2009, Republica (related blog here)
Views from the bottom, July 1, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Let NDB go away, June 21, 2009, Republica (related blog here)
Economy under the Maoist administration, June 4, 2009, Republica (also see Report card and this blog post)
What's holding back growth?, May 14, 2009, Republica (related blog post)
Growth strategies for Nepal, April 27, 2009, Republica (related blog post)
Poverty, conflict & armed rebellion, April 14, 2009, www.myrepublica.com (related blog here)

Live radio interview, March 28, Listen here:

Reality about Nepal's GDP growth rate, March 24, 2009, www.myrepublica.com (related blog here)
High hopes amidst weak foundation, March 8, 2009, www.myrepublica.com (related blog here)
Pay taxes, become responsible citizens, February 15, 2009, www.myrepublica.com (related blog here)
Bust factors: Poor appropriability and load-shedding, January 6, 2009, www.myrepublica.com (related blog here and here)
Impact of global financial crisis on the Nepali economy,December 8, 2008, www.myrepublica.com (related blog here)
Roads to progress: Nobel thoughts about the Nepali economy, October 15, 2008, The Kathmandu Post (related blog here)
Enter Socialism with Inflation, September 23, 2008, The Kathmandu Post (related blog here and here)
Industrial Policy for Nepal, September 2, 2008, The Kathmandu Post (related blog here)
Times up for garment industry, August 19, 2008, The Kathmandu Post (related blog here)
Leaking customs and weak trade, August 2, 2008, The Kathmandu Post (related blog here)
Red tapes under the red flag, June 10, 2008, The Kathmandu Post, Kathmandu (related blog here)
The Economics of Reservation, December 2007, Business Journal, Kathmandu
Untangling the threads associated with defaulters , July 2007,New Business Age,Kathmandu (related link here)
Consequences of weak industrial relations, March 2007, New Business Age, Kathmandu
Troubles in Nepal, March 1, 2004, Letter to the Editor, Time magazine
Assault on freedom of press, April 21, 2004, The Himalayan Times
Partial attitude, September 24, 2004, The Kathmandu Post
The burning culture, September 8, 2004, The Kathmandu Post
 
Book reviews:
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy (forthcoming inTrade Insight)
The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Revolution in the Twenty-first Century (forthcoming in Journal of South Asian Development)
Unleashing Nepal: Past, Present and Future of the Economy, The Kathmandu Post, January 30, 2010
The Return of Depression Economics, Trade Insight, Vol.5, No.2, June-July 2009, South Asia Watch on Trade, Econoimcs & Environment (SAWTEE)
The War for Wealth: The true story of globalization, or why the flat world is broken
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Research stuff:
Growth diagnostics of the Nepalese economy, April 2009
Growth Diagnostics and its Application to the Nepealese Economy (This paper is divided into two parts. Part I is about theoretical stuff and its previous applications. Part II is about the application of this approach to the Nepali economy)
Selective Intervention:  Addressing Local Constraints to Create Customized Institutions, May 2008
The WTO, post MFA era, and the Nepalese Garment Industry
Exploring the link between Poverty and Growth, May 2007 (click here to download an abridged version of this paper, which was published in Summer 2008, I presented at an economics conference at Elizabethtown College, PA.)
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