Post on 15-Dec-2015
Research Issues on Nepal’s Development Strategy: Threats and Possibilities
Bishnu Prasad Sharma (PhD)Associate Professor
Patan Multiple Campus
Structural changes in the economy (1950-2014)
Drivers of the political economy
Openness of the economy
National Economic integration
Total factor productivity
Nepal's Political Economy: Reviewing Development Experiments
Agriculture price volatility
specific changes observed in agriculture sector and their implications to poverty reduction (not only agriculture and GDP)
The role of agriculture price information and agriculture income and productivity
Effectiveness of farmer managed input system vs. govt. managed system
The role of farmer co-operatives in agriculture productivity and poverty reduction
Nepal's Agriculture: Constraints, Opportunities and Alternatives
Food security: food product, their types and consumption pattern to identify specific food security scenario
Food security situation and poverty trends
Fuel price, food prices and food security
Output potentials of unused, fallow agriculture lands
Share of middlemen in value chain for commercial agriculture products
Food Security in Nepal: Why, to Whom and How
Labour unemployment and poverty
Labour productivity and poverty
Unemployment rates and educational attainment
Impact of remittance on income inequality
Technical education and labour productivity (technical vs. non-technical education)
Unemployment: determinants, constraints and policy choices
Physical Infrastructures and agriculture productivity
Physical infrastructures and FDI
Road corridors and agriculture income
Infrastructures
Estimation of optimal number of states based on
- revenue potentials - population size- HDI- cost of living- infrastructure density- per capita consumption- Employment rate
State Restructuring and Fiscal Federalism in Nepal: Issues on Economic Viability
Inclusiveness analysis - by district - by ethnicity- by dialect groups- by gender- by income groups
Inclusive Growth: Nepalese Perspective
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