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Approaches to Poverty Reduction in Nepal: Implementing the Change

-Dr. Meena Acharya, Senior economist, Nepal Operationalizing Gender Equality and Social Inclusion:  There has been a shift in the development approach from “gender mainstreaming” to “gender equality and social inclusion mainstreaming”. The goal is to ensure that development addresses not only discrimination against women but also bias against women and men from historically excluded social […]

Enhancing the Dialogue Efficiency of Political Parties in Nepal

Dev Raj Dahal, Kathmandu, Nepal Introduction: The sovereignty of Nepali state is weak to subdue chaos and the road to a democratic polity is hamstrung by a lack of consensual behavior of political leaders on a myriad of constitutional issues, peace process, state building and structural reforms. Meaningful political dialogues foster mutual learning from each […]

Nepal as a battleground in the era of ‘Great Power Competition’

Rajan Karki Nepal-USA relation was founded in 1947 which later developed into the establishment of embassy of USA in 1959. Since then, the volume of US assistance to Nepal has reached more than 8 hundred billion US dollars. Over the last couple of years, the US Aid has dispensed 40 million dollars assistance or even […]

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 […]

Solidifying National Integrity – 4

Professor Durga D Poudel, USA   Unifying Asta-Ja Framework: I have been writing about Asta-Ja Framework for the past 14 years after I published a groundbreaking article on Asta-Ja in 2008 “Management of Eight ‘Ja’ for Economic Development in Nepal” in Journal of Comparative International Management, 11(1): 1-13. Following this publication of this article, we […]