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Unleashing Nepal

Date: Oct 15, 2009

The past decade has been an eventful one for Nepal. It has featured thwarted attempts at democracy, a royal massacre and a coup, and finally, almost incredibly, Maoist guerrillas coming over ground, winning a popular mandate to form a government and decisively ending the centuries old institution of monarchy.



At this historic juncture in Nepal, when many fundamental questions on economic rights are being asked by an ever more assertive citizenry, acclaimed columnist and business maven Sujeev Shakya’s Unleashing Nepal examines the chequered history of the Nepali economy—from the time of unification, through decades of autocracy, foreign aid dependence, the ‘conflictonomics’ of the Maoist guerrilla war and a remittance economy driven by the labour of diasporic Nepalis.

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