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JAYA JUNG MAHAT

Director/ Co-Founder

Email: jjmahat[at]nipore[dot]org

            

PROFILE

Jaya is a policy economist. He has over 8 years of professional experience in the areas of youth, sustainable development, knowledge management, research and policy advocacy across countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Prior to co-founding NIPoRe; he worked as an Editorial Assistant for HIMAL Southasian in Kathmandu, as one of the ten Global Youth Mobilizers for the Rio+20 Social Dialogues in Kathmandu and in Rio de Janeiro, and as a Senior Editor for the Asian Journal of Public Affairs (the flagship journal of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore) in Singapore among others.

He has an MPP from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. In addition, he attended St. Xavier’s College – Kathmandu for a graduate course in Social Work and Tri-Chandra College (Tribhuvan University, Nepal) for an undergraduate course in Science. Besides, he has received intensive trainings on evidence-based policymaking, sustainable development, research and policy advocacy from universities and policy think-tanks in China, India, Switzerland, Thailand and the United States of America.

Jaya was born and schooled in Jumla, Karnali Province, Nepal. He is an amateur runner, a photographer and a backpacker. As of January 2020, he has been to 63 (out of 77) districts of Nepal.

RESEARCH AREAS

  • Policy analysis
  • Innovation management
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Trade and investment
  • Public finance

PUBLICATIONS

Working Paper
  1. Mahat, Jaya and Nasirova, Khadija and Rob, Asm Safwan. 2016. Money, Campaign Finance and Elections – a Case Study of the US Federal Elections
Contributed Works
  1. UNESCO and Peace Child International. 2012. Be skilled, be employed, be the change generation (Youth version of annual EFA Global Monitoring Report – Youth and skills: Putting education to work)
  2. Anon. 2011. Engaging multicultural audiences in sustainability education. Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 4(4), 183-187. Doi: 10.1089/sus.2011.9674
Newspaper Op-Eds and Columns

Jaya regularly contributes opinion pieces for The Kathmandu Post. All his contributions for the Post are available here. Earlier, he contributed a monthly column (Innovation and Policy Insights) for the Business360° Magazine for fifteen months.

RESEARCH COMMENTARIES

Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates

NDV0011 - Migrant Remittance Inflows for South Asia, Southeast Asia Plus China

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates

NDV0010 - Ten Most Popular Websites in Nepal (November 2019)

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates

NDV0009 - Government Debt as Percentage of GDP (South and Southeast Asia Plus China)

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates

NDV0008 - Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's Foreign Trips

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates, Research

NDV0007 - Doing Business in South Asia, Southeast Asia and China

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates, Research

NDV0006 - Registered Taxpayers in Nepal (As of Sep 17, 2019)

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates, Research

NDV0005 - Competitiveness - Nepal and SAARC Countries

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates, Research

NDV0004 - President Xi Jinping's State Visits - SAARC Vs ASEAN

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates, Research

NDV0003 - Dashain and Internal Movement of People in Nepal

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates, Research

NDV0002 - State of Urban Population in South Asia

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Jaya Jung Mahat, Research Commentaries

NRC0013 - Targeted Advertisements – Are Facebook Ads Discriminatory?

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Jaya Jung Mahat, NIPoRe Dataviz, NIPoRe Updates, Research

NDV0001 - Access to Finance in Nepal (As of mid-July 2019)

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Jaya Jung Mahat, Research Commentaries

NRC0009 - Internet at 50: Opportunity for Nepal to Examine Past Impacts of the Internet and Plan for the Future

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Jaya Jung Mahat, Research Commentaries

NRC0003 - Libra and the Future of Nepal’s Financial System

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