You see, it's difficult for young economists or interested-in-economics Nepalis to be openly critical of senior (in terms of age) economists in Nepal. There is no safe perch in Nepal from which one can question some of the works of senior economists. If you start criticising older folks, without getting personal, for their professional lapses, then, you effectively end up killing your own career prospects in Nepal. And we Nepalis (as a few anecdotes on Sajha also prove) are known to hold vicious grudges for a long time to get even with those who have dared to slight us! Most business journalists in Nepal are really khattam when it comes to digging deeper into economic stories. Let's just say that there is no David Warsh or Paul Krugman equivalent even on a minor scale in Nepal, and leave it at that. And lawyers' training in Nepal is so jhoor that most of our lawyers remain incompetent to master the basics of economics, finance and accounting. All this leaves the field wide open for a surprising group of heroes: India-trained Chartered Accountants (CAs) who, because of their rigorous training, can intimidate the hell out of both Nepal-educated lawyers and inarticulate economists by throwing around a few numbers here and there. In the developed world, accountants are just that: accountants. Only in Nepal, because of a lack of serious competition from lawyers and economists, CAs have emerged as,well, intellectuals. Just my observations. oohi ashu