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Will China’s duty-free access offer to the products’ benefit Bangladesh?

Ms. Mehjabin Bhanu Masters in Political Science, Bangladesh China-Asia’s largest economy, has decided to give duty-free export to 98 percent of Bangladesh’s products, including leather and leather goods. 383 new items were added to the list. From now on, a duty-free facility will be available for the export of 8,930 Bangladeshi products in the Chinese […]

Nepal: Foreign Policy Formulation and Execution

– Gopal Thapa Former Chief of Protocol Foreign Ministry, Nepal Formulation of foreign policy takes into consideration factors, among others, a country’s geography, strategic location, economic development status and level of socio-cultural consciousness among people in the country. These elements together constitute what in fact are called the “vital national interests”. The “Yam theory” propounded […]

Nepal-India relations: the midget, mammoth and the missing link in the Himalayas

From the archive Prof. Gopal Pokharel, Maitidevi, Kathmandu The background: Historically, culturally and strategically Nepal-India relation is traced back to antiquity that dates back at least to the time of ‘Ramayana’ in the ‘TretaYug’. The relations between the two needs no further explanation and is characterized as having its origin to people to people level […]

Nepal: Contribution of Remittances in Poverty Alleviation and Employment-

Prof. Sri Dhar Khatri, Nepal Looking only at geographical distribution of migrants within their own country and household distribution of remittances do not provide the full picture on the poverty reduction with remittances hypotheses. Sri Lanka’s and Nepal’s experience illustrates that even though large numbers of migrants going abroad are from the richest districts, and […]

US-China Relations in the Changing Global Context

– Paras Ghimire, Former Ambassador of Nepal to Myanmar (2012-2016) Introduction: The International system – as designed, following the World War – II will almost disappear by 2040 on account of the rise of emerging powers, a globalizing economy, an historic transfer of relative wealth and economic heft, from the West to East, the growing […]