Economics Fantasy

     It has been a dream for many Nepalese to see train in Nepal coming from China since a long time and this dream has started to take shape rapidly after a long unofficial blockade by India.     The purposed railway map is marked blue in the following figure: Purposed Railway from China to Nepal. (unedited image source: stratfor.com) As you can see this railway is going to link the populated part of India with the populated part of China. It will mean a lot to the economics and politics of India, China and Nepal. Nepal:      This railway will distribute Nepal's international trade dependency between China and India. Currently, Nepal has huge dependence on India for Trade. Such distribution of dependency will prevent India from imposing future blockades on Nepal. Or at least, blockade will have much smaller effect than the one we faced after 2015 earthquake in Nepal.  Nepal has a huge possibility in generating hydro e...

    Around five years ago, people of Kathmandu had long wanted three changes in Kathmandu Valley. Almost everyone would be complaining to make such changes occur. And these were halt in load-shedding, halt in strikes by political parties, and the last, as you might have guessed is the halt in pollution; specifically air pollution.     Halt in load-shedding was quite a challenge, particularly because of solar panel and generator businesses, perhaps candle business too. But it took one bold guy, backed by an honest minister(or at least seen as honest) and reputation hungry prime-minister to do what had to be done.    Strikes by political parties have not yet halted, but the reduction in such strikes is on the process. This was accomplished, as I deduce, by the people themselves who denied strikes despite the threats. Educational institutions have become an easy target for vandalists to threaten and impose educational strike. But that is quite okay, because ...