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Nepal: Strategic Perspective on Climate Change

-Dr. Upendra Gautam, Kathmandu, Nepal Though Climate Change (CC) has moved to the center stage of public affairs, there is no effective policy of CC. Publications like “The Climate Change Risk Atlas” 2010 ranked Nepal as the fourth most vulnerable country in the world after Somalia, Haiti and Afghanistan. Why is this country so vulnerable […]

Weaknesses, Issues, Problems and Challenges of Nepalese political leadership

Professor Ram Kumar Dahal (Retd) Tribhuwan University, Nepal Political challenges and problems: The ruling elites and political leadership in Nepal, in spite of their flowery slogans of inclusive and participatory democracy, have terribly failed to promote political stability, institutionalize democracy. The deteriorating law and order situation in different parts of the country, particularly in the […]

Nepalese political leadership reflects Nepalese society

Professor Ram Kumar Dahal, Nepal The institutionalization of democratic polity, maintenance of political stability and the promotion of democratic political culture and good governance, and, in general, the success and failure of any nation largely depends on political leadership. In democratic countries, political leadership becomes a subject of prime importance, and performs a number of […]

Building the Social Welfare State: Democratic Path to Civic Renewal in Nepal

Dev Raj Dahal, Kathmandu, Nepal Introduction: The sudden collapse of bureaucratic form of communism in the later part of eighties and the rise of grim contradictions in the laissez faire capitalism in 2008 had stoked heated debates over the redefinition of the role of state, re-regulation of market, environment protection and distributional issues for improving […]

Nepal: Question of political will and challenge of SA regional cooperation

(From the archives) Prof Sridhar Khatri, Ambassador designate USA  History was made a decade and half ago when the South Asian countries committed themselves to the concept of regional cooperation. Although skeptics have consistently questioned its efficacy in what is generally considered to be a conflict prone region, others have generally remained enthusiastic, eagerly awaiting […]