Sushant Acharya

Biographic Data

ID3601484
NAMESushant Acharya
GIVEN NAMESSushant
FAMILY NAMEAcharya
SIGNATUREACHARYA S
AFFILIATIONSKathmandu University
ORCID0000-0002-9155-8127
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • An “ecosystem of support” approach for women’s economic empowerment through agriculture and forestry based enterprises

    Meeta S Pradhan, Rachana Upadhyaya et al.ARTICLEGender Technology and Development2026References: 13

    Existing frameworks and tools for women’s economic empowerment (WEE) put stress on the underlying complexities of defining it in dynamic contexts. Missing in these frameworks are the burgeoning use of digital technology in improving WEE, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we identify this gap in available WEE frameworks, and propose ways to account for dynamic risks and external shocks, while recognizing the growing importance o…

  • Dropping out of environmental governance

    Open AccessNathan J Cook, Dil Khatri et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2025

    Nepal’s community forestry program is widely regarded as successful. At its peak, the program enlisted a large share of the rural population as managers of the country’s communal forests. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that voluntary participation in the program is in decline. Analyzing the empirical literature, we describe this surprising pattern of decline and discuss potential negative impacts. We also use political-economic reaso…

  • Reprint of

    Open AccessSushant Acharya, Edouard ChalleARTICLEJournal of International Economics2025

    We study optimal monetary policy in a tractable Small Open Economy Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian (SOE-HANK) model in which households face uninsured idiosyncratic risk and unequal bond-market access. We derive conditions under which optimal policy in our SOE-HANK economy entails domestic producer price stability, extending the ”open-economy divine coincidence” result of Galí and Monacelli (2005) beyond the Representative-Agent benchmark (SOE-…

  • Inequality and optimal monetary policy in the open economy

    Open AccessSushant Acharya, Edouard ChalleARTICLEJournal of International Economics2025

    We study optimal monetary policy in a tractable Small Open Economy Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian (SOE-HANK) model in which households face uninsured idiosyncratic risk and unequal bond-market access. We derive conditions under which optimal policy in our SOE-HANK economy entails domestic producer price stability, extending the open-economy divine coincidence result of Galí and Monacelli (2005) beyond the Representative-Agent benchmark (SOE-RA…

  • Building Collective Capabilities to Respond to Gender-based Constraints in Smallholder Farming

    Open AccessSushant Acharya, Anushiya Shrestha et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2025References: 10

  • The Role of High-Value Agriculture in Capability Expansion

    Open AccessMarie-Luise Matthys, Patrick Illien et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Development…2023References: 15

    High-value agriculture contributes to rural incomes, but does it also contribute to expanding “human capabilities” (Sen, Development as freedom, Knopf, New York, 1999) in a durable way? Through long-term qualitative fieldwork in three landlocked LDCs—Nepal, Rwanda and Laos—resulting in over 150 interviews, we found expansions of the three analysed capabilities: paid work, mobility and social relations. Yet, those improvements were characterised b…

  • Slow Recoveries and Unemployment Traps

    Open AccessSushant Acharya, Julien Bengui et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2022

    We analyse monetary policy in a model where temporary shocks can permanently scar the economy’s productive capacity. Workers lose skill while unemployed and are costly to retrain, generating multiple steady-state unemployment rates. Following a large shock, unless monetary policy acts aggressively and quickly enough to prevent a significant rise in unemployment, hiring falls to a point where the economy recovers slowly at best—at worst, it falls …

  • Before cardamom, we used to face hardship”

    Open AccessMarie-Luise Matthys, Sushant Acharya et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2021Cited by: 5References: 19

    Numerous low-income countries foster the commercialization of smallholder agriculture to achieve development outcomes and improve the lives of the rural population. The effects of commercialization policies, however, are measured using a limited set of indicators. This paper exemplifies a new approach to the study of agricultural change: analyzing commercialization effects through a local concept of the Good Life. In our case study of East Nepal,…

  • Feminization of Agriculture in the Eastern Hills of Nepal

    Open AccessBishnu Raj Upreti, Yamuna Ghale et al.ARTICLESAGE Open2018Cited by: 1References: 10

    There have been very few studies in the process of feminization of agriculture in Nepal. The overall purpose of this study was to analyze the changing role of women in high-value agriculture in the postconflict context of Nepal. In this study, we applied qualitative research tools: focus group discussion, key informant interview, on-site observation, and descriptive and interpretative analysis. The study found that after the peace agreement of 20…

  • Equity, Inclusion and Conflict in Community Based Forest Management

    Open AccessSushant Acharya, Bishnu Raj UpretiARTICLEDhaulagiri Journal of Sociology…2015Cited by: 1References: 1

    The equity and inclusion issues are widely observed in Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) and Community Forestry (CF) is not an exception. Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) are portrayed as robust grassroots institutions for forest management and group governance. However, many contemporary researches have shown that CFUGs are still governed by some influential local elites who hardly practice equity and inclusion. In this context, objec…