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Foreign Aid in Nepal: What do the data show?

From its modest appearance in the early 1950s, foreign aid has grown to form an integral part of the development process in Nepal, and it is amazing to note how

By Bikas Joshi

/ 1 Mar 1997

Made In Nepal, Exported to India

The new Indo-Nepal trade treaty signed on 4 December 1996 will allow, for the first time, goods manufactured in Nepal access to the Indian market free of custom duties. The

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

Out of India

Kathmandu Valley´s booming economy has attracted plains labour by the tens of thousand. Kathmandu residents do not need reminding that there is an open border between India and Nepal.

By Sangeeta Lama

/ 1 Jan 1997

In Nepal, the problem with numbers is not unique to counting emigrants. Newspaper columnists, activists and researchers routinely manipulate or exaggerate figures in order to demonstrate the supposed seriousness of

By Dilli R Dahal

/ 1 Jan 1997

Servant as Murderer

"The fact that Nepalis are by nature straightforward has been proved false." On the night of 13 January 1996, 48-year-old executive Satya Prakash Sharma, his 42-year-old wife Shobhana,

By Mitu Varma

/ 1 Jan 1997

Care Takers

Democratic decay in most countries in South Asia has suddenly made it fashionable once more to say some pretty (politically) incorrect things in public. Things like: maybe things were better

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

Regionalism Washed Away

An important element which was included in the 1977 agreement, and a point that has come up again and again in the Indo-Bangla water talks, was the need for "

By Ajaya Dixit

/ 1 Jan 1997

New “Nepali” journal

Studies in Nepali History and Society Vol 1 No 1 Edited by Pratyoush Onta, Mary des Chene et al Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, June 1996

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1996

RIVERS RUN THROUGH IT

Two uncomfortable border problems have come up for discussion between India and Nepal: one in Nepal's southeastern tip in the Tarai plains and the other diagonally across, in

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1996

Pitfalls of Nepal’s Democracy

Nepalis are justifiably proud of their multi-party democracy which they claim to have achieved after a long struggle against an unjust, apathetic and authoritarian regime. In the political lexicography of

By A. Gupta

/ 1 Aug 1996

LETTERS OF DISCREDIT

When smart-talking Ram Sharan Mahat finally quit on 31 July, with some opposition prodding, he became Nepal´s first-ever Finance Minister to resign over allegations of "financial irregularity"

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1996

Idea and Reality, Nepal and Rolpa

The national-level politicians and political parties have failed Nepal, oblivious as they are of cynicism and desperation that is developing countrywide. The national-level politicians and political parties have failed Nepal,

By Rishikesh Shaha

/ 1 Jul 1996