HIMALAYAN RESEARCH BULLETIN XVIII(2) 1998

Volume XVIII

Number 2

1998

Special Topic: DEVELOPMENT IN NEPAL

Editorial

In memory of Thomas Ballinger

DEVELOPMENT IN NEPAL: Issues and Approaches
Editorial by David Seddon

• David Seddon, with Ganesh Gurung and Jaganatha Adhikari, Foreign Labour Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal
• John Cameron, The Agricultural Perspective Plan: The Need for Debate
• John Dunsmore, with Piers Blaikie and Daivd Seddon, Patterns of Change in Western Nepal: Rural Households of the 1970's and 1980's Compared
• John Dunsmore, Microenterprise Development: Traditional Skills and the Reduction of Poverty in Nepal
• Piers Blaikie and Daniel Coppard, Environmental Change and Livelihood Diversification in Nepal: Where is the problem?
• Mary DesChene, "Black Laws" and the "Limited Rights" of the People in Post-Andolan Nepal: The Campaign against the Proposed Anti-Terrorist Act of 2054 v.s.

NEPAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION: Members Meeting Minutes

RESEARCH REPORTS

Michael Muhlich, Buddhist Initiation among the Newars in Nepal

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS

BOOKS, REVIEWS, REJOINDERS

Recent Publications

Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, reviewed by Geoffrey Samuel

The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus, reviewed by William Reiser

CONFERENCE DIGEST

Calls for Papers

Date of Publication: April 1998