Looking at Development and Donors Essays from Nepal

Abstract

Foreign aid has been the subject of a great deal of development rhetoric in Nepal. Although its objectives have rarely been met, foreign aid continues to shape Nepal’s development’s priorities, modalities and outcomes. Currently, around 70 percent of the country’s development expenditure is financed by external aid and this has remained more or less constant for the last four decades. Clearly, foreign aid has been a key part of Nepal’s development experience, and of its successes and failures. Pandey’s book documents and examines the ‘symmetrical relationship’ between the history of ‘failed’ development and foreign aid in Nepal and is concerned with fundamental questions: Why has there been very little development despite six decades of foreign aid? Is foreign aid part of the solution or part of the problem? Pandey’s intellectual position is rooted in his premise that ‘failed’ development is manifested as rampant poverty, widespread corruption and violent conflict. The book offers a sad and ironic picture of development efforts and foreign aid in Nepal. The author demands accountability from donors:

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