February 19, 2006

Development Nepal

Development and Stability

Ongoing Research/ Project

Pedalling out of Poverty: Social Taxonomy, Socio-Economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implication of Irrigation Development in Nepal

-Bishnu Pariyar (PhD Student at University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom)

 

The benefits from the irrigation development accrue to landlords and land rich households, which are usually, but not always from higher caste groups, while negative externalities associated with it are born by mostly, landless and land-poor households. Click here

 

 

October 30, 2005

Using Lens Opacity (cataracts) as a Biomarker of Exposure to Biomass Smoke in an Epidemiological Study: Lessons from Nepal 

—Amod Pokhrel (PhD Student at University of California, Berkley, California, USA)

 

I am a biologist and I know TB has a biological manifestation but I realized, who gets TB is determined socially.  Click here