Nepal
Friday, June 26, 2009
TOURISM
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TOURISM Tourism was a major source of foreign exchange earnings. Especially since Mount Everest (Sagarmatha in Nepali) was first climbed b...
INDUSTRY
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INDUSTRY During the 1950s and 1960s, Kathmandu received aid commitments from Moscow and Beijing. During the 1960s, Soviet and Chinese aid ...
FORESTS
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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
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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
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AGRICULTURE Agriculture dominated the economy. In the late 1980s, it was the livelihood for more than 90 percent of the population--althou...
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