Posted by: Vhootee October 7, 2015
MODI-fying Nepal
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Adding my 2 cents here.

Trade, not aide.

We have a mentality that "education" will fix everything and many people believe in it without even thinking through. Right now, everybody in foreign land is busy opening a school in every village that is on the map of Nepal. By this rate, we will produce lot of smart people in the future but in a land with no job, which means they will be exported to foreign countries.
"Education" is a tool, you need an environment (job) to use the tool, or else it is useless. A society with less educated people with plenty of work is far better than with lots of educated people with no job.
Skills and vocational training people will be far more effective than education in our situation. We need to export, not just import products. We need to revive agriculture, tourism, textile manufacturing and re-invent our handicraft industry so it is more up to date.
If you notice something, any Nepali overseas who opens a school in a village is praised with "wow, good job". But someone who sells made in Nepal products in a foreign land is just another "businessman". That businessman is doing better thing for Nepal than these "holier than thou" social workers and NGOs. I think we are culturally too focused on social work and not in business, it makes us vulnerable and poor mentally.
No amount of social work and foreign aid can help us, we need to make (produce) things and be able to sell worldwide. Education can help but if there is no job, education is useless for that society to prosper.



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