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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