Published On: May 7, 2019 01:25 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
The present economic model of Nepal has a number of interesting structural characteristics. First, it focuses on imports. The government gets most of its revenue from import which is the basis for financing public expenditure, mostly regular expenditure necessary for the functioning of the state. In an import-based revenue structure, there is an embedded incentive to maintain luxury imports.
Published On: April 16, 2019 01:25 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
The Trump administration in the US has come up with the Indo-Pacific doctrine which in many ways is a restatement of Barak Obama’s pivot to Asia, known as the rebalance doctrine. Both doctrines are of the same origin and carry a shadow of the famous Thucydides trap that was popularized by Harvard Professor Graham Allison in the 1990s.
Published On: February 27, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
The values the government is projecting from its actions encourage dishonesty and deception and give little space for honesty, efficiency and integrity in bureaucracy
Published On: October 28, 2018 02:00 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
In a democracy where money is increasingly becoming an important ingredient for electoral success, the government seems at times virtually powerless
Published On: July 29, 2018 12:10 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
Recently I was in San Francisco to attend a meeting of Non Resident Nepalis (NRN). While in the hotel lobby I met an old friend, Mahesh, a high tech professional and a naturalized American citizen of Nepali origin. Our conversation centered on an incident that reflects in many ways the present political commotion in the US.
Published On: May 9, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
India should examine the relevance of some assumptions of ‘Nehru doctrine’ and build a new paradigm of shared concern and shared prosperity with Nepal
Published On: May 1, 2018 12:47 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
The current debate on state of economy presented by white paper is largely suggestive of whether to see the glass half full or half empty
Published On: March 27, 2018 01:30 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
The dictator of a small impoverished country is the center of attention of the whole world with all eyes eager to watch the “historic” handshake between Kim and Trump
Published On: December 27, 2017 01:30 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani
Oli will have to convince Indian establishment that a politically strong and prosperous Nepal is the best guarantee of safeguarding India’s interests.