The "economy" of Nepal and other states differes greatly in this dimension- the size of functional units. in Nepal, almost every household, and therefore almost every person, has his own of economic "eco-system" unlike many other countries where it takes a whole society to have that. My point is in South Asia, as opposed to other western societies, every household has the means of generating gaas, baas and kapaas. Every family has some farm and "khet", a little store or "pasal" and things like that even in high-profile business families. I recall a friend of mine who had a house in Kathmandu was asked whether he had any "khet jagga" by his would-be father-in-law. So, in Nepal, in overall, almost every household is a nearly-complete economic system in itself. My family in a remote district from Kathmandu would not be affected at all even if rest of the world were destroyed by alien invasion, we there had nothing to do with the economics of Nepal or Kathmandu or my zone or district or whtever; we were independent as a micro ecosystem, economically. In the western world, this is not the case, many ppl are dependent on jobs which dont produce food, clothes or whatever directly for their family consumption. That is why, all these figures and indices do not make a great sense in context of Nepal and such indicators need to be re-examined in context of societies like those in South Asia that are conglomerations of independent economic micro eco-systems . And this is indeed a good thing, we are also for a similar but a more privileged world. And we have deduced that a single plant, just one plant species, the POT, is capable of solving almost all of the problems the poorer world is facing. More disquisition on this rational revolution, visit - http://sajha.com/sajha/html/openthread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=22921&show=all Lets roll...