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The late 1980s and early 1990 will long be remembered as "the time of great upheavals" in the history of democracy and human rights. Mikhail Gorbachev's "New Thinking" Perestroika (restructuring) and Glasnost (openness) has changed Soviet life and has also worked as a catalyst in transforming the communist world. In eastern Europe - Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East...
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...
The world economy today has a unique property of being so integrated that no nation is independent in settling its philosophical framework in relation with economic reforms and transformations. A consistent country specific policy package nevertheless, may be deduced based on certain specific working assumptions determined by national parameters which, in turn, reflect divergent socio-economic...
Generally, terms such as state, nation, nationalism and national integration are used interchangeably. Even social scientists and politicians do not significantly differentiate in the definitions, usages and nuances of these terms. The Charter of the United Nations also declares that for a political entity to be recognised as a nation state, it must fulfil certain obligations, of which the...
Nepal has now entered its fourth decade of 'planned development' begun in 1956 with the launching of its 'First Plan' which, like all subsequent 'Plans' it should be noted, was contingent on foreign aid. One particular consequence of Nepal's dependence on foreign aid for its industrial development is that machine-based manufacturing, at least up to the latter half of the 1970s, has tended to...
This report presents an approach to Human Resource Planning in Nepal - the Case of Nepal Civil Service prepared under UN/DESD Project # NEP/88/034, Strengthening Institutional Capabilities of the Ministry of General Administration. It highlights issues in Human Resource Planning in Nepal and provides an approach towards building a human resource plan for the country. As a case illustration,...
Formally Nepal and Bhutan established diplomatic relations in 1983. Such a move was presumably prompted by the enthusiasm and calculation with which the South Asian Regional Cooperation (SARC) scheme was being given a formal shape following the proposal made by Ziaur Rahman, then President of Bangladesh. In 1985 the first South Asian summit accepted it, turning SARC into an association - South...
The first part of the author's argument is related to 'local knowledge', 'indigenous knowledge', or sustainable agriculture: local of indigenous knowledge is neglected but a valuable resource. Like many researchers in environmental and sustainable agriculture studies, anthropologists complain that development planners neglect the role of local knowledge in Nepalese agricultural production....
Though one can visualise the environmental problems in the mountain regions in almost all countries of the world, the magnitude of the problem is very high in a mountainous and developing country like Nepal. Due to the rapid growth of population and consequent effect on over exploitation of the depleting resources, ecological degradation is taking place everywhere in the Nepal Himalaya. The...
Democracy in Nepal first attained in 1951 through an armed revolution against the autocratic Rana regime, was short-lived. By a coup d'etat in 1960, the late King Mahendra dismantled the parliamentary democracy and introduced the partyless Panchayat system. After 30 years of the Panchayat Raj, the movement for the restoration of democracy was launched jointly by the Nepali Congress (NC) and...
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