Nepal

TOURISM Tourism was a major source of foreign exchange earnings. Especially since Mount Everest (Sagarmatha in Nepali) was first climbed b...

INDUSTRY During the 1950s and 1960s, Kathmandu received aid commitments from Moscow and Beijing. During the 1960s, Soviet and Chinese aid ...

FORESTS From 1950 to 1980, Nepal lost half of its forest cover. The first scientific measurement of forest resources was done in a 1964 su...

LAND REFORM Nepal was long under a feudal system where a small number of landlords held most of the agricultural land. The state extended...

AGRICULTURE Agriculture dominated the economy. In the late 1980s, it was the livelihood for more than 90 percent of the population--althou...