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Fifteenth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (2020) Full Issue, Nepal Study Center
Fifteenth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (2020) Full Issue, Nepal Study Center
Himalayan Policy Research Conference
PROCEEDINGS AND PAPER ABSTRACTS OF THE Himalayan Policy Research Conference (Fifteenth Annual) Nepal Study Center Saturday, December 5, 2020, Virtual
Fourteenth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (2019), Nepal Study Center
Fourteenth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference (2019), Nepal Study Center
Himalayan Policy Research Conference
Proceedings and paper abstracts of the Himalayan Policy Research Conference (Twelfth Annual) from the Nepal Study Center. Thursday, October 17, 2019, Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club, Preconference Venue of the 48th South Asian Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A Missed Opportunity For Transformation? – An Analysis Of Official Climate Change Discourse And Adaptation Strategy In Nepal, Pearly Wong
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Despite the highly political process of international climate change negotiations, most efforts in climate change adaptation assume an apolitical, technical policy process (Tanner and Alloche, 2011). The paper examines the different climate justice discourses as well as critical approaches to climate change adaptation, followed by a case study of Nepal, to examine their translation into its national and sub-national policy framework. I conducted qualitative analysis on eight major climate-change related documents by the country, chosen based on availability online, language, and their broader scope of applicability. The result shows that Nepal has adhered to the ‘vulnerability’ and ‘transition’ discourses, which …
A Case Of Negative Externality: Use Of Pesticide And Its Impact On Health Among Farmers In Salumbhu Village, Nepal, Mohammad Mashiur Rahman, Soumi Roy Choudhury, Alok Bohara
A Case Of Negative Externality: Use Of Pesticide And Its Impact On Health Among Farmers In Salumbhu Village, Nepal, Mohammad Mashiur Rahman, Soumi Roy Choudhury, Alok Bohara
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Agriculture is the major contributor of the economy for developing countries. In the process of mass level Agric-production, there is a necessity of using pesticides to increase the net yield for the farmers. The widespread and uncontrolled use of harmful pesticide creates influential negative externalities ranging from environmental degradation to the health status of the farmers. This study investigates the effect of using pesticide on different health symptoms experienced by the farmers from a primary survey data in Salumbhu, a village in Nepal. A total of 6 health symptoms were considered among the farmers those who are the applicator of …
Full Proceedings, Nepal Study Center
Full Proceedings, Nepal Study Center
Himalayan Policy Research Conference
No abstract provided.
Health Outcomes And Mitigation Strategies, Rajan Bishwakarma
Health Outcomes And Mitigation Strategies, Rajan Bishwakarma
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This paper examines how exposure to the extreme temperature in-utero effects the health of children later in life using a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey of Nepal. Using a nationally representative sample of 4951 children under the age of 5 years, I employ ordinary least square method to estimate the effect of extreme temperature on height-for-age of the children. The extreme temperature in-utero is an indicator variable, which is equal to 1 if the monthly mean of the daily maximum temperature is greater than 2 standard deviations. Prior work has identified that extreme temperature exposure has a detectable negative contribution in …
The Dynamic Optimal Control Model For Analyzing The Cost-Effectiveness Of Cervical Cancer Prevention In South-Asian Developing Countries, Mengqi Liu, Alok K. Bohara
The Dynamic Optimal Control Model For Analyzing The Cost-Effectiveness Of Cervical Cancer Prevention In South-Asian Developing Countries, Mengqi Liu, Alok K. Bohara
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As cervical cancer becomes one of the most frequent cancer in women, the prevention methods as HPV vaccination and screening are being measured not only clinically but also economically. This paper is using dynamic optimal control model to find the optimal vaccination rate and screening rate to minimize the cost of vaccination, screening, and treatment for cervical cancer in developing countries. The simulation is under the south-Asian developing countries’ scenario. With the general form set up and different-scenario assumption discussion, the paper found the vaccination rate and screening rate are determined by the price and the dynamics of population change. …
The Stressor In Adolescence Of Menstruation: Economic Analysis Of Effective Coping Strategies, Siobhan K. Yilmaz, Alok K. Bohara, Swati Thapa
The Stressor In Adolescence Of Menstruation: Economic Analysis Of Effective Coping Strategies, Siobhan K. Yilmaz, Alok K. Bohara, Swati Thapa
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Adolescents are slowly being recognized as a generation, worldwide, that may require different policy approaches to aid in improving their health and wellbeing. Much anecdotal evidence exists from surveys and interviews that girls throughout the developing world face many hardships with menstruation due to a number of constraints, many of which result in poor emotional wellbeing Most of the research, up to this point, has consisted of purely qualitative analysis or at best, correlational evidence of linkages between girls’ background and their likelihood to practice good hygiene. This work, grounded in the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, evaluates the …
Full Proceedings, Nepal Study Center
Full Proceedings, Nepal Study Center
Himalayan Policy Research Conference
Proceedings and paper abstracts of the Himalayan Policy Research Conference (Twelfth Annual) from the Nepal Study Center. Thursday, October 26, 2017, Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club, Preconference Venue of the 46th South Asian Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Remittances And Financial Inclusion: Evidence From Nepal, Nayan Krishna Joshi, Sadichchha Shrestha, Shailie Rimal, Saurab Shrestha, Bishnu Dev Pant
Remittances And Financial Inclusion: Evidence From Nepal, Nayan Krishna Joshi, Sadichchha Shrestha, Shailie Rimal, Saurab Shrestha, Bishnu Dev Pant
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Since 2008, Nepal has been consistently ranked as one of the top ten remittance recipient countries in the world when remittances are measured as a share of gross domestic product (GDP). In fact, among the countries receiving remittances as a proportion of GDP, Nepal stood second in 2016, first in 2015, and third in 2013 and 2014. However, despite this fact, the empirical evidence on how remittances impact financial inclusion - household's access to and use of formal financial services - in Nepal remains scarce. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap in literature. In particular, we examine …
An Analysis Of The Barriers To Cross Border Trade In Hydroelectricity In The Himalayas, Eric Strahorn
An Analysis Of The Barriers To Cross Border Trade In Hydroelectricity In The Himalayas, Eric Strahorn
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There are many assumptions held by policymakers and scholars about the potential for hydroelectricity in the Himalayas. The first assumption is that the Himalayan rivers of Bhutan, India, and Nepal are a vast untapped source of hydroelectricity. The second is that the benefits of realizing this potential will provide for a routine cross border trade in relatively clean and sustainable electricity. The third is that despite the perceived benefits there are longstanding barriers that have prevented large scale hydroelectric development. Oseni and Pollitt (2016) argue that it would be worth understanding what barriers stand in the way of expanding cross …
India’S Quest For Energy Security And Its West Asia Policy, Shashi Sahay, Vipra Swami Arya
India’S Quest For Energy Security And Its West Asia Policy, Shashi Sahay, Vipra Swami Arya
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India’s rapid economic growth is highly dependent on stable access to energy supplies. With increasing growth in the consumption of fossil fuels, India’s dependence on imports of oil and hydrocarbons in general would increase substantially in the future which is 37.5 percent of our total imports already, making India search for energy security. Foreign policy therefore has a critical role in ensuring energy security for India. Energy security has, as a result, become a vital factor in Indian foreign policy. However, despite India’s ongoing initiatives to secure its increasing energy requirements from all over globe through its policy of diversification, …
Can Government-Sponsored Sustainable Agricultural Farming Practices Reduce Land Decay Through Crop Biodiversity Conservation Under Production Uncertainties?, Sakib Mahmud
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Under income uncertainties, agricultural farmers might be influenced by government-sponsored programs that might lead to higher income opportunities by focusing on monoculture at the expense of crop diversification strategy. However, the latter strategy is likely to reduce production uncertainties for agricultural farmers and hence, ensuring sustainable agricultural development in the targeted area. A theoretical model is proposed to understand such possible economic trade-offs between high income-lower crop diversification and lower income-higher crop diversification outcomes resulting from government-sponsored programs and institutions.
Assessing The Impact Of Climate Change On Farmland Values In Nepal: A Ricardian Approach, Samrat Bikram Kunwar
Assessing The Impact Of Climate Change On Farmland Values In Nepal: A Ricardian Approach, Samrat Bikram Kunwar
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This paper presents an application of Ricardian approach to assess the impact of climate change on farmland values in Nepal. The Ricardian approach is estimated using a panel fixed effects model. The results are tested with two models that account for spatial effects: a spatial lag model and a spatial error model. The findings reveal that Nepalese farmlands are sensitive to climate change. This result is consistent in both the spatial and non-spatial analysis. The inclusion of the spatial effects, however, produced significantly more conservative estimates of climate change impacts. Average temperature in the spring and summer season and the …
Exposing The Contradictions Of The State: Complexities Of Legal Mobilization In Kashmir, Haley Duschinski
Exposing The Contradictions Of The State: Complexities Of Legal Mobilization In Kashmir, Haley Duschinski
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This paper draws on ethnographic research as well as critical readings of the legal archive to show how state power is exercised and also contested in landmark cases of fake encounters, disappearance, and custodial killing.
Searching For The Disappeared In Kashmir: Gendered Activism And The International Human Rights Framework, Ather Zia
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Since 1989 in the Indian controlled Kashmir more than 10,000 men have been subjected to enforced disappeared in the counter-insurgency actions by the Indian army. Kashmiri women mainly Muslim mothers and wives have organized under the banner of Association of the Parents of the Disappeared (APDP) to search for their disappeared men. In this paper I trace how these APDP activists propagate and sustain their struggle and operate under the rubric of international human rights framework to make a case for their search.
Humans, Hanguls And “Indian Dogs” In Kashmir, Deepti Misri
Humans, Hanguls And “Indian Dogs” In Kashmir, Deepti Misri
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Joining the "human rights comics" (Hong) genre popularized by Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and including Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Joe Sacco’s Palestine, Malik Sajad's graphic novel Munnu (2015) seeks to expose human rights violations in Kashmir to an international audience. This paper will closely consider how Munnu constructs its human rights claims on behalf of Kashmiris by recourse to the non-human. Attending particularly to Sajad's use of the humanoid hangul to figure the Kashmiri, and to the presence of (non-humanoid) dogs everywhere in the novel, this paper will ask: how does the non-human come to figure -- in surprisingly gendered ways …
Global Refugee Crisis And South Asia’S Geopolitics: The Case Of The Bhutanese Refugees, Lopita Nath
Global Refugee Crisis And South Asia’S Geopolitics: The Case Of The Bhutanese Refugees, Lopita Nath
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The exodus of the Lhotshampas of ethnic Nepali descent from Bhutan since the 1990s is another case of forced migration in South Asia. After 17 years in refugee camps in Nepal and failed negotiations by the United Nation High Commissioner of Refugees to repatriate the refugees back to Bhutan, third country resettlement became the only solution. Since 2008, 100,000 refugees have been resettled in the United States, Australia, Canada, U.K. and the Netherlands, with over 86,000 in the United States. This paper seeks to examine the implications of South Asia’s geopolitics on the creation and management of this refugee crisis …
Migrant Heterogeneity And Education Of Children Left Behind In Nepal, Nirmal Kumar Raut, Ryuichi Tanaka
Migrant Heterogeneity And Education Of Children Left Behind In Nepal, Nirmal Kumar Raut, Ryuichi Tanaka
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This study investigates the causal impact of work-related migration of parents on left behind children's education and investment on schooling. To isolate the direct impact of parental absence, we estimate the effects of parental migration and remittances separately. Using third round of Nepal Living Standard Survey and applying a two-step process to address selfselection into the migration statuses and correct for endogeneity into remittances, we find negative effect of parental absence and positive effect of remittances on education of children left behind. To further explore the heterogeneous impact of parental migration, we extend our analysis allowing the heterogeneity by educational …
Long-Term Effects Of Gurkha Recruitment In Nepal, Juni Singh, François Libois, Oliver Vanden Eynde
Long-Term Effects Of Gurkha Recruitment In Nepal, Juni Singh, François Libois, Oliver Vanden Eynde
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In this research project we examine the long-term economic effects of the recruitment of soldiers from Nepal into the Indian and British Army.
Gender, Class And Nation In The Foothills Of The Himalayas: Student Aspirations And The Construction Of The New Middle Class, Denise Scott
Gender, Class And Nation In The Foothills Of The Himalayas: Student Aspirations And The Construction Of The New Middle Class, Denise Scott
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As in other places, in India dominant beliefs and ideals largely reflect the beliefs and experiences of the middle class. As such, social constructions like “respectable femininity and masculinity,” find their roots in professional, middle class perspectives and experiences. Likewise, these gender constructions help define and reinforce class. In the face of rapid globalization and increased educational opportunities for both women and men in India, it is important to consider students as actors in the construction of the new middle class as it interacts with definitions of respectable, or ideal, femininity and masculinity. Researchers have so far focused on those …
Functional And Financial Devolution To Urban Local Bodies And Their Performance In India, Brijesh Kumar Bajpai
Functional And Financial Devolution To Urban Local Bodies And Their Performance In India, Brijesh Kumar Bajpai
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India has headed towards a significant political revolution, almost simultaneously with economic reforms, in the early nineties of the twentieth century. Relative rise of market vis-à- vis state and relative importance of local government vis-à-vis central and state governments may be viewed as extension of the same logic. The import of perpetual existence, ensured with passage of 73rd and 74th Constitution Amendment Acts, 1992 is yet to be fully realized in terms of complete devolution of functional and financial powers to the elected local bodies across the states in India. The present paper addresses the issues related to the functional …
Households In Times Of War: Adaptation Strategies During The Nepal Civil War, François Libois
Households In Times Of War: Adaptation Strategies During The Nepal Civil War, François Libois
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This paper analyses short and medium term consequences of the Nepalese civil war on rural households’ livelihood and on the inter-group distribution of income. Conclusions rely on two rich datasets: the Nepal Living Standards Survey collected before, during and after the war, and the dataset on the number of killings by month and village during the eleven years of the conflict. Using the survey timing as a quasi-natural experiment, results indicate that in the short-run all households lose, but high castes by a larger extent. Short-term coping strategies determine medium term diverging recovery paths. Non-high castes allocate more labor in …
Full Proceedings, Nepal Study Center
Full Proceedings, Nepal Study Center
Himalayan Policy Research Conference
Proceedings and paper abstracts of the Himalayan Policy Research Conference (Eleventh Annual) from the Nepal Study Center. Thursday, October 20, 2016, Madison Concourse Hotel and Governors' Club, Pre-conference Venue of the 45th South Asian Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Building Resilient Communities, Wenmei Guo, Alok Bohara
Building Resilient Communities, Wenmei Guo, Alok Bohara
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No abstract provided.
Aiding The Distressed Compatriots: Scope, Impacts And Potential Of Support Activities Of Nepalese Diaspora Community In Japan Post-Nepal-Earthquake 2015, Pradip Thapa
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In response to the disastrous M7.8 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks that struck Nepal, Nepalese diaspora community living across the world came to the immediate aid of Nepal in organizational as well as personal capacities. This paper expounds the role of Japan-based Nepalese diaspora community in marshalling resources in Japan and administering support for the earthquake victims of Nepal.
Institutional And Organizational Capacities For Adapting To Climate Change In The Least Developing Countries, Sunil Tankha
Institutional And Organizational Capacities For Adapting To Climate Change In The Least Developing Countries, Sunil Tankha
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In our research, we focus on three action arenas: village development, agriculture and forestry. The reason for this is that adaptation capacity is a function of both the intensity of the impacts caused by climate change and the resources to which a community has access and entitlement. Local development therefore is a key issue in increasing adaptive capacities, and in this area the relevant government organizations are the Village Development Committee (VDC), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (MFSC). In each of these ministries and departments, we conducted several key …
Farmers’ Perception Of Climate Change And Willingness To Pay For Weather-Index Insurance In Bahunepati, Nepal, Wenmei Guo, Alok Bohara
Farmers’ Perception Of Climate Change And Willingness To Pay For Weather-Index Insurance In Bahunepati, Nepal, Wenmei Guo, Alok Bohara
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This paper is a pioneering study of investigating effects of farmers’ perception of climate change on their willingness to pay (WTP) for a weather-index crop insurance in Nepal. We use contingent valuation data collected from a primary household survey conducted in Bahunepati, Nepal to examine the topic. The research improves on the previous literature by analyzing two crop insurance products which incorporate both crop and livestock.
Full Proceedings, Vijaya R. Sharma, Soumi Chouwdhury
Full Proceedings, Vijaya R. Sharma, Soumi Chouwdhury
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No abstract provided.
Schooling Infrastructure And Educational Outcomes In Nepal, Vinish Shrestha, Animesh Giri
Schooling Infrastructure And Educational Outcomes In Nepal, Vinish Shrestha, Animesh Giri
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We estimate the impact of an increase in the number of schools on educational outcomes in Nepal. We combine the between-district differences in number of new schools with variation in exposure to these schools created by the virtue of individuals being of school-age. Our results and back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that on average the increase in the number of schools can explain about a third of the total differences in the reading and writing abilities for the treated and control groups of women. These results underscore the continued importance of increasing access to schooling in developing countries like Nepal.