Maximum20, My experience is that most critics of globalisation in Nepal (at least the ones I meet at Martin Chautari) ill-versed in basic economics. These people take such rigidly ideological positions that I, for one, find it difficult to have open-ended discussions with them on globalisation. That said, just the other day, I picked up this book at Kathmandu's Sarswoti Book Store at Pulchowk . . . BOOK: "Between integration and exclusion : impacts of globalization in Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania and Vietnam" Edited by Juhani Koponen. - Helsinki : Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 2003. ***** I haven't had a chance to read this other book yet (though I will have it within a month), but its review makes it sound really interesting. - http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20040901fareviewessay83513/arvind-panagariya/the-miracles-of-globalization.html oohi "thank god for globalisation" ashu