development
The problems resulting from rapid urban growth, haphazard development, and general lack of planning have been apparent in the towns of the Kathmandu Valley for more than three decades. During that period, Kathmandu routinely experienced serious lack of access, deficiency of infrastructure, traffic congestion, and inadequacy of housing. These problems were compounded by the continuing damage to...
Review of: Pokherel, J. C.; 1996, Environmental Resource Negotiation Btween Unequal Powers. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, India.
This book attempts to build a conceptual framework on negotiation by particularly applying Roger Fisher's works on Negotiating Power. Studies on negotiation from a weak nation's perspective and strategies pursued by weak nations in enhancing power are of...
Today we are living in an era in which the capitalistic mode of production is replacing the production of the socialistic order. The result, being the self-instinct of individual, has again triumphed over his deep urge for collective thinking and a collective way of doing things. Thus the dynamics of group development has definitely received a major set-back. Even in a slow-developing country...
While the cultural and religious importance of mutual help institutions has been emphasised by scholars of Nepalese culture, the socioeconomic aspects of such institutions and systems have only in a few instances received broad recognition. Any deficiency of information on the subject has become more crucial nowadays, since the economic development of Nepal has come to terms with an ever...
In his book "Nepal: Dimensions of Development", Harka Gurung, one of Nepal's most renown geographers, introduces the chapter on education by quoting a Chinese proverb: "If you are planning for a year - sow rice; for ten years - plant trees; for a hundred years - educate people".
The ancient wisdom of the importance of "human capital" has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years,...
Book review: Agricultural Project Services Centre and John Mellor Inc. Washington D.C.; 1995, Nepal Agriculture Perspective Plan. National Planning Commission, His Majesty's Government of Nepal, Kathmandu,Nepal.
This is a brief introduction of the Nepal Agriculture Perspective Plan (APP) 1995-2015. The APP is the 20-year plan of His Majesty's Government of Nepal, National Planning...
What are the main causes of underdevelopment of Nepal? Why has it been said that most foreign aid has failed? Dor Bahadur Bista attempts in his book Fatalism and Development to identify key factors in Nepali society that are obstructing and wasting its effort to develop. He indicates the fatalistic caste hierarchy and its values as the root causes of the problem, and proposes a notion of '...
Book review: Sharma, G; Kanel, N.R.; Sharma, N.K.; eds. 2000, Nepal: Missing elements in the development thinking. Nirala Publications, Kathmandu, Nepal.
An eminent economist of international repute while answering questions at a talk programme remarked that the economy of southern Asian nations are fragile and have a narrow base. He added that the foundations of such economies were...
The once isolated Jiri Valley of this hilly region of eastern Nepal came into prominence as a result of a Swiss developmental project. The Swiss Association for Technical Assistance (SATA) initiated a multi-purpose development project in 1957. At this time, the Swiss government and His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HGM) began to expend a tremendous amount of effort to develop the area, with...
Municipal town or urban locality, according to the 1991 population census of Nepal, is defined as a town that contains over 9,000 inhabitants. By defining it as an incorporated town, it acquires a status of an independent administrative unit, and manages all its functions and development activities on its own through raising revenues from various sources, besides central government grant. It...
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