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Aid programs for Nepal aren't working anymore

Donors should go back to effective approach of partnering with community groups

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A view of Kathmandu covered in smog: Nepal needs to invest $15.25 billion, or the equivalent of nearly half its annual GDP, to attain U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.   © Reuters

Kushal Pokharel is a research fellow at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies in Kathmandu. He also serves in the research faculty of the Silver Mountain School of Hotel Management.

As one of the poorest countries in Asia, Nepal has been a recipient of international development aid since support from the U.S. began arriving seven decades ago as part of Washington's global Point Four Program at the beginning of the Cold War.

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