A fate other than marginality

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Are hill economies condemned to remain at the fringes, surviving as appendages to the plains? Or is there a path of development for them that is autonomous, different, creative? Unless economists and philosophers brave these questions and seek answers specific to the hill condition, the road to marginality is wide and welcoming at the economic periphery where highlanders reside.

Nepal, together with the hill economies of all the Himalaya generally, is today stuck in a developmental blind alley. The myopia which has got us into this gully is linked to acceptance of an economic philosophy — the conceptual outlook for managing a country´s household budget and resources—that is biased towards the market and the plains.

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