Title:	Trade Policy, Growth and Poverty in Asian Developing Countries
Authors:	Kishor Sharma
Keywords:	Regional Development
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	The idea for this volume was conceived during the course of a research mission for the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to Kathmandu in late 2001. During our two-week mission my research counterpart, Chandra Athukorala (ANU), and I had extensive discussions on growth and poverty in Nepal. By this time poverty and inequality had reached its peak in Nepal (in fact the highest in South Asia) and, as a consequence, the country was going through a civil war. The law and order situation in the country was so precarious that the Government was forced to declare a State of Emergency (November 2001). This was necessary mainly to protect public life, infrastructure and private property, as multinational companies and big business houses were vulnerable to attacks by the left-wing (‘Maoist’) activists. The view that market-oriented policy reforms, initiated since the mid-1980s, have further marginalised the poor was extensively voiced in the mass media and the policy circles in Nepal. This debate, and our attempts to delineate the rhetoric and reality of policy reforms in Nepal in relation to the nexus of employment and equity, convinced me of the need to look more closely at the experiences of other countries in the region from a comparative perspective.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/27809
ISBN:	0-203-42454-9
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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