Dikshya Singh

At its core, economics is political. It has never been — and never will be — a value-free science. It is shaped by ideology, human morality, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities. Economics was born as political economy for a reason.

As Nepal stares at graduation from the LDC category in November 2026, recent political shocks and fragile income growth raise questions. In this opinion piece, @kharelparas asks whether Nepal should consider deferring graduation to safeguard the economy and ensure resilience before losing LDC-specific international support. sawtee.org/category/opini…

The US Administration's reciprocal tariffs announced on 2 April affect virtually all countries. The universal 10 percent tariff hike has already come into effect and the additional hike for countries other than China has been put on a 90-day pause. The road ahead is full of uncertainties—there are doubts about how, or whether, the reciprocal tariff scheme will continue. However, one thing seems certain: the international trade landscape is undergoing a profound change. Against this background, SAWTEE’s issue note examines the US’s reciprocal tariffs from Nepal’s perspectives. Read it here: sawtee.org/publications/D…

SAWTEE is organizing a session titled "New World Disorder: Trading in Uncertain Times" at Project Sambaad Bhaag Dui on 12 March 2025 [01:00 — 02:15 PM] at Moksh, Jhamsikhel. For information and registration click here projectsambaad.info

South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), in collaboration with leading regional organizations, is pleased to present the Fifteenth South Asia Economic Summit in Kathmandu. Under the theme “Unleashing an equitable green transformation in South Asia.”

SAWTEE's Programme Coordinator @diykshya provides insights into different economic issues haunting Nepal's economy at present along with the country's leading experts in the July issue of Business 360 magazine. Read the full interview here: b360nepal.com/epaper/161

Apply now SAWTEE is thrilled to launch the 2024 edition of its Media Fellowship programme focusing on the trade and climate change nexus! Deadline: 23 August 2024 #MediaFellowship #ClimateChange #GlobalTrade #JournalismOpportunity #SustainableFuture sawtee.org/sawtee-media-f…

Give this man a medal 🥇😂😂

@SanjeevSatgainy @journoprithvi Congratulations Prithvi dai!!

मेरा प्रिय मित्र ⁦@journoprithvi⁩ आर्थिक अभियान राष्ट्रिय दैनिकको कार्यकारी सम्पादक नियुक्त हुनु भएकोमा बधाई तथा शुभकामना!

Trading Tales: @sawteenp & @IFPRISAO share findings and insights from their study on ‘Informal Cross-Border #Trade in Agri-Food Commodities in #SouthAsia’. 🧵Check out the highlights from their recently concluded #workshop in #Kathmandu👇 @IFPRI #borders #india #nepal #bangladesh

Women are choosing to stay single and childfree not bec they hate men or western influence, but they are registering the exhaustion of women around them - colleagues, friends, relatives - and choosing not to raise a husband alongside a baby and do disproportionate labour

📢SAWTEE is hiring! 🔎SAWTEE is looking for a Nepali citizen for the positions of  Economist (Environmental Economics) & Economist (Trade). Visit the link for further details on job requirements & how to apply: jobsnepal.com/economist-envi… ⚠️Apply by 16 May 2024

I do think that there’s a really oversimplified understanding of how Europe became wealthy (based almost purely on extractivism) that some people should grow beyond, but this just strikes me as oversimplifying in the other direction. It’s clearly a mix of both

If you see that something has triggered a person and your first reaction is "haha good" instead of asking why, based on the persons gender, sexuality, race, etc, then I hate to break it to you, something is very wrong with you. Introspect why you're so cruel. Muting this I'm done

Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real. It is a result of statistical confusion. Whenever you have a group with extreme values, they tend to exhibit regression to the mean. Eg. on average, sick people tend to become more healthy over time. Thus if you give one group medicine, and one group placebo, the placebo group will also tend to get better over time, because of regression to the mean. People have then misinterpreted this to think that it is the placebo pill that actively does this. If you want to demonstrate a placebo effect, you have to construct a study where there are three groups: • A. treatment • B. placebo • C. no treatment, no placebo If B and C get different outcomes, that would demonstrate a placebo effect. When this has been tried, mainly there has been no provable placebo effect. See the paper in the screenshot. (There is some evidence for an effect for pain, but this get's into a slightly different debate.) The fact that the placebo effect is mainly not real, fortunately frees us from having to come up with convoluted explanations, as to why the placebo effect would work even when we tell the patient that it is a placebo, as in the quoted tweet.

Great opportunity for journalists who want to explore international trade related issues

The Forbes 30 Under 30 have collectively raised $5.3B in funding. The Forbes 30 Under 30 have also been arrested for frauds and scams worth over $18.5B. Incredible track record. theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Dear @ESPNcricinfo and @sambitbal, the least you could do is not use the picture of a rape accused for your story! There could be better pictures... (We know that you don't know the spelling of 'rape', hence use 'sexual coercion' in stories regarding him)

🧵 People in the Past were Desperately Poor 🧵 1/ Whenever I discuss history its shocking how much ignorance I encounter from even trained historians about the level of poverty in the past Contrary to idiots and revisionists No. People in the past were horrifyingly impoverished