The Half Hog

So says the pragmatic ARTHA BEED in the Nepali Times.

Nepal has received billions of dollars in donor assistance in the past five decades, but when one looks around, apart from introducing workshop-seminar habits, paid junkets, cocktail receptions, report-generating and SUV driving habits, the impact vis-a-vis the costs has been minimal. One may sound cynical, but it is difficult to pinpoint 10 successful interventions that have really altered Nepal’s future.

For full article, see:

http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2008/11/21/EconomicSense/15399

Suni Hundal on the train to Lucknow, originally uploaded by rpb1001.

Suni, self-made journalist / blogger. Travelled with him from Delhi to Kathmandu. In his few short days here, staying with a friend of his who is up to her elbows in the aid scene, he wrote this on aid and Nepal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/04/nepal.internationalaidanddevelopment

Is this what I am getting into?

Read more of Sunny at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sunnyhundal