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  • Fiscal Policy 2014: Can it Revive the Economy?

    On July 13 the government unveiled a Rs 618 billion annual budget for the fiscal year 2014-15 with significant investment promised in energy, infrastructure, agriculture and irrigation sectors. Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat, who has time and again committed to kick-start second generation of economic reforms, termed the budget as reform-and investment-oriented. Though the budget has…

  • “Nepal May See 10% GDP Loss From Glacier Melts, Climate Extremes”

    Climate change-driven events like melting glaciers pose a grave risk to Nepal’s economy, and could cause losses equal to almost 10% of the country’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2100, says a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) climate and economics report for South Asia. “The population is extremely vulnerable, not only to the immediate…

  • The Kathmandu Post interview: When blogs were Twitter and Facebook

    The Kathmandu Post interview: When blogs were Twitter and Facebook

    UWB founder Dinesh Wagle is interviewed by Kathmandu Post’s Weena Pun in today’s issue of the newspaper. What is United We Blog? It is a political blog—Nepal’s first—founded on my personal web domain in 2004. Initially it started as a forum to express private feelings and the daily grind lived by journalists and included stories…

  • Thabang: The village that didn’t vote; once hosted Maoist guerrillas

    Thabang: The village that didn’t vote; once hosted Maoist guerrillas

    Photos and a story from a remote Nepali village that boycotted the 2012 national elections.

  • Predicting the Future: Nepal Elections 2013

    Originally posted on Ushaft's Blog: More info (22nd Nov): Followups to this blog post can be seen here: How was the polling day? and Citizens’ Statement about Maoists’ walkout from vote counting. I have made some revisions about my prediction made on this post on the blog post written after polling closed across Nepal,…

  • Why do you need Ushaft’s election updates for Nepal?

    Originally posted on Ushaft's Blog: More info (22nd Nov): Followups to this blog post can be seen here: How was the polling day? and Citizens’ Statement about Maoists’ walkout from vote counting. After polling closed across Nepal, I have made some revisions about my prediction made in the initial posts of this series. The…

  • Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Transitional [in] Justice in Nepal

    As today is Blog Action Day 2013, and the theme this year is Human Rights, I thought it would be an appropriate time to write a piece about transitional justice in Nepal. All say Nepal is in political transition but none of them are clear how to end this transition. It seems political parties have…