Santosh Acharya's Blog

I remember that year—it was 2009 when I first signed up for Facebook. Then, making random posts, comments, and tags, to having around 10 social profiles, didn't just happen overnight. It was fun to learn and grow with time. In the last 19 years, I have used 3 feature phones ☎️ and 5 smartphones 📱, and created emails in Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail, which was an unexpected shift for me. Now, I am lecturing on social media analytics, learning a lot about search engines and their algorithms, sharing insights on social media, and also pinpointing the importance of such platforms for small-to-multi-national companies to create brand value and expand their market presence. Now that AI is embedded in their algorithms, the issue of #data_governance stands at the top of any country’s laws. DATA has become more popular, powerful, and influential for everyone involved in local-to-national-to-regional-to-global platforms. I am overwhelmed with the scale of its existence and expansion. I feel...

  John Csiszar December 13, 2024   4 min read hapabapa / Getty Images Why Is X’s Valuation So Low? What Is the Future Direction of X? X, formerly known as Twitter, has hit a rough patch ever since the outspoken CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, bought it for $44 billion in October 2022.    While now a private company, the  estimated valuation  of X has fallen dramatically since Musk took over the helm. While Musk’s public profile has been boosted even more in recent months due to his close connection with President-elect Donald Trump and his appointment to the newly formed “Department of Government Efficiency,” the problems with X remain.    Here’s a look at how much X’s valuation has fallen  since Elon Musk took over , what may have caused the decline, and what the future may hold for the company. X/Twitter’s Valuation Decline Elon Musk paid $54.20 per share for Twitter when he completed his acquisition on Oct. 28, 2022. The total purchase price was ...

I was looking for the dynamics of fiscal and monetary policy in the Nepalese economy.   Both have a specific economic and political explanation, though monetary policy stands more economic connotation than the fiscal one. Although the central bank has a specialized department and relatively competent human resources, even their document seems are unable to get the real picture of the economy. Since 2004/05 to 20015/16 inflation remains higher than the GDP growth in Nepal. It happened not just like it to be.  In reality, it was committed because of the political, structural, and market-based phenomenon that are not even looked for a reason. I have gone through another aspect to analyze the Nepalese economy whether it is 'paradigm shift '. Reviewing the documents and consulting with then officer bearer, I am almost convinced with the situation of 'paradigm lost' rather in Nepalese economy. Simply this conclusion is driven due to the failure of understanding the...

Generally in federal countries, Sub-national governments (SNGs) receives intergovernmental grants to finance their assigned activities and implement national policies. Grants are used to subsidies of services and equalization of the grants. However, the allocation of grants is found to be complex in its governance (OECD, 2006).   According to the world bank , the government introduces intergovernmental transfers for four reasons. First one is to maintain the vertical balance. Vertical imbalances arise between the SNGs due to the imbalance between the expenditure responsibilities and revenue raising power, this may cause to a deficiency in service delivery made by SNGs. The second reason is to equalize the capacities of the resources while in SNGs, their revenue raising capacity varies. Third one is the externalities . Due to the low revenue capacity SNGs under-spend where substantial external benefits ensure-like spending on health and education by their own resources. An...

The wide trade deficit has become the normal phenomenon of the Nepalese economy. Liberalization has been initiated with the expectation that there will be the free flow of goods and services through which reciprocal benefit can reap up through the country's export, import and industrial development. Considering the same line, Nepal became the 154th member nation of WTO in 2004. The Nepal Trade Integration Strategy  (NTIS), 2010 has introduced in which 17 product are targeted to strengthen the competitiveness of the Nepalese trade and later it was upgraded by NTIS, 2016 that recognizes potentials for product and value chain development in sectors: i). Agro and forest products (cardamom; ginger; tea; and medicinal and aromatic plants); ii). Craft and manufacturing products (all fabrics, textile, yarn and rope; leather; footwear; chyangra pashmina; and, knotted carpets); and iii). Services (skilled and semi-skilled professionals in various categories; Information Technology and Busi...

Dr Yubraj Khatiwada When Dr Khatiwada joined the office as a governor, most of the macroeconomic indicators were forced people to ask whether Nepal is going to be a failed economy. The credit crunch, high inflation and low economic growth were the major challenges in front of him. At the end of his tenure, he gained faith from the people that he protected the economy through micro-monetary management. He framed the monetary system of the country. He introduced Merger and Acquisition aiming to minimise the cross holding in different banks. Later on, it became the best tool to stabilise the banking system of the country.  His best effort was found in real estate investment, in which he caps the banking lending, which becomes a turning point for protecting this industry from an accident. His practices towards using monetary instrument were significant. His personality worked on implementing the monetary policy throughout his tenure. Unfortunately, he was unabl...