The floods keep coming. Nepal keeps starting over
Three catastrophic floods in three years have tested three administrations. What has been less tested is whether any of the previous disasters changed what the government does next time.
Three catastrophic floods in three years have tested three administrations. What has been less tested is whether any of the previous disasters changed what the government does next time.
We are making two changes, and we want to explain both plainly.
Balendra Shah’s administration has every right to dismantle corruption and business-politician collusion. But it should ask whether the cost of its methods will be borne by an economy already desperate for investment.
Turns out inflation doesn’t need your new address to find you; it just needs an appetite.
Nepal’s rules are modelled on other parliamentary democracies. But rules matter only when the prime ministers answer questions — and the Speakers insist that they do.
Balendra Shah’s government spent 100 days performing sovereign equality with foreign envoys. Then someone had to actually go get an invitation.
The September uprising and its electoral aftermath have opened a window for the Nepali press to transform itself. That window won’t stay open long.
China’s new political doctrine, named after its president, used to be plastered all across the country. This week, it entered its next-door neighbor.