The Political Economy of Underdevelopment and Poverty in Nepal

In: Routledge Studies in Development Economics Series

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Author's Notes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Persistence of Underdevelopment -- 1.1 Explanation of Underdevelopment -- 1.2 Strategy of Development -- 1.3 Planning and Development -- 1.3.1 Soviet Union -- 1.3.2 China -- 1.3.3 South Korea -- 1.4 Planning and Growth Performance in Nepal -- 1.4.1 Objectives of Plans -- 1.4.2 Growth Performance -- 1.4.3 Nepal's Growth Performance Compared to SAARC Countries -- 1.5 National Pride Projects -- 1.6 Some Explanations of Failure of Planning -- 1.6.1 Paucity of Natural Resources -- 1.6.2 Internal Conflict and Political Instability -- 1.6.3 Planning Machinery and Planning System -- 1.7 Indicative Planning -- 1.8 Fifteenth Plan -- 1.8.1 Major Goals and Targets -- 1.8.2 Flaws of the Fifteenth Plan -- 1.9 Re-engineering NPC -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Rhetoric of Poverty Alleviation -- 2.1 Concepts of Poverty -- 2.2 Growth and Poverty Reduction -- 2.3 Concern for Poverty Reduction in Nepal -- 2.4 Basic Needs Programme -- 2.5 Poverty Estimates by Various Institutions -- 2.6 Nepal Living Standards Surveys -- 2.6.1 Poverty Rate -- 2.6.2 Poverty Differential by Districts -- 2.6.3 Poverty by Caste/Ethnicity -- 2.7 Multidimensional Poverty -- 2.8 Poverty by Federal Province -- 2.9 Nepal's Poverty in SAARC Countries' Context -- 2.10 Rhetoric of SAARC's Pledges on Regional Poverty Alleviation -- 2.11 Micro-finance and Poverty Alleviation -- 2.12 Demolition of Squatters' Settlements and Poverty -- 2.13 COVID-19 Pandemic and Poverty -- 2.14 Illusion of Poverty Reduction -- 2.14.1 Fallacy of Aggregate Figures -- 2.14.2 Myth of Poverty Reduction -- 2.14.3 Unrealistic Poverty Line -- 2.14.4 Neglect of Mountain and Remote Hill Districts -- 2.14.5 Worsening Income Inequality.