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Research Issues on

Nepals Development Strategy:


Threats and Possibilities
Bishnu Prasad Sharma (PhD)
Associate Professor
Patan Multiple Campus

Nepal's Political Economy: Reviewing


Development Experiments

Structural changes in the economy (1950-2014)

Drivers of the political economy

Openness of the economy

National Economic integration

Total factor productivity

Nepal's Agriculture: Constraints, Opportunities


and Alternatives

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

Food Security in Nepal: Why, to Whom and


How

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

Unemployment: determinants,
constraints and policy choices

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)

Infrastructures

Physical Infrastructures and agriculture


productivity

Physical infrastructures and FDI

Road corridors and agriculture income

State Restructuring and Fiscal


Federalism in Nepal: Issues on
Economic Viability
Estimation of optimal number of states
based on
- revenue potentials
- population size
- HDI
cost of living
infrastructure density
per capita consumption
Employment rate

Inclusive Growth: Nepalese


Perspective

Inclusiveness analysis

- by district
by ethnicity
by dialect groups
by gender
by income groups

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