Human Development in South Asia 1997
by Mahbub ul Haq
Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1997
ISBN 0 19 577773 5
Sri Lanka's economy in 1996 was pounded by soaring defence spending, power cuts and political unrest. Why, then, are the planners bullish about the coming year.
Planners in
With improved bilateral relations and some positive trends in commerce between the two countries, Sri Lanka and India together might just show the way to the brave new world of
Since it cautiously opened its borders 13 to foreign visitors in 1974, following the coronation of HM King Jigme Singhe Wangchuk, Bhutan has been earning about U$2 million a
On a cold spring morning, if one looks up from the wide mountain highway that leads up from Kalka, the bright sunshine, striking the smoke billowing from thousands of coal
Nepal's Infant Stock Market Gets Cracking
Immediately after Kathmandu's stock exchange was opened in 1984, a letter arrived from a village in West Nepal with an
