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Mountains are dynamic in nature compare to the plains and thus they posses some distinct temporal and spatial characteristics in a unique socio-cultural setting. There is also an ever increasing need for spatial and temporal data in planning and management activities for which GIS is being recognised more and more as a common platform for integrating social, economic and environmental data and...
International development in third world countries represents one of the most important forces of modern change across the globe. Motivated by both humanitarian and political considerations, vast resorces are being marshalled to eliminate disease, poverty, and ignorance especially in the world's poorest hinterlands. The Kingdom of Nepal has received foreign aid for over thirty years, a sum...
The preparation of a sectorial account of rural and urban growth of population of Nepal is beset by problems of data and definitions. The earliest source on population by localities is the 1952/54 census. The localities identified as urban in the 1961 census do not tally with those identified in the 1952/4 census and the 1971 census urban localities do not tally with those of 1961. The 1981...
Nepal has entered its fourth decade of planned development begun in 1956 with the launching of its 'First Plan' which, like all subsequent 'Plans', was contingent on foreign aid. One result of this dependence on foreign aid for its industrial development in particular, is that machine based manufacturing, at least up to the latter half of the 1970s, has tended to be the preserve of the...
Resort to folk competence in health is a recent and important trend in development policy. In the field of primary health care, this trend has gained force in the recognition of the cultural constraints within which any community health programme must operate.Recent research in medical anthropology has focused on the way in which local people acting in the light of their cultural values and...
Deriving its inspiration from the Bergonian General Welfare function, the Government in Nepal has launched a perspective Basic Needs Fulfilment Programme (BNP) for the period 1985-2000. To put it in exact numbers, the size of this programme would be about 45 percent of the total development plan outlay and for the poor, means being able to earn Rs. 5.41 per head per day by the end of the...
The present UN/ Cambridge Multi Dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has changed the whole complexion of the poverty issue with a country like Nepal, which has shown results recently of a decrease in numbers of people living below the poverty line from 31% to 25.4%. However, the MPI Index has shown Nepal's MPI as 65%. This has really raised questions on the work being carried out so far by the...
A series of programmes designed to accelerate the multi-faceted development of regions was implemented in different parts of the world in the past. The multi-purpose river valley projects like the Tennessee River Valley Authority in the USA can be cited as a pioneering project in the early 1930s. The Rapti Valley Development Project in the inner Terai of Nepal initiated in the mid 1950s was...
In a labour surplus four-sector economy composed of household, business, government and the rest of the world, income, output, and/or employment is determined by the decision to save and invest. Investment is mainly financed by two major sources: internal and external - and is determined by benefit (B) and cost (C) calculations. The greater the B/C ratio, the higher the profit. So long as B...
In a recent paper on women in development, Pradhan and Shrestha point to the way that Nepalese women have been bypassed by many development projects. Since project organisers, in their view, have operated on western assumptions about the dichotomy of domestic and outside production, presuming that women are merely involved in the household, the projects have therefore concentrated on men, and...
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