[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: INDIAN PARTITION:Explaining Civil War in Nepal

umesh sharma jaipurschool at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 8 20:07:55 PDT 2007 

as Mukul-da pointed out this article says that poverty is main cause of civil war - I wonder why Indian partition happened exactly 60 years ago (aUG 15, 1947) .

Umesh

HBS Working Knowledge <workingknowledge at hbs.edu> wrote: To: jaipurschool at YAHOO.COM
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:09:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Newsletter: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

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   High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal 
   Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments 
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 ==============================  New on the Site  High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5689.html
 Nepal, the home of Mount Everest, has been gripped in recent years by civil war. A new paper by Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and Quy-Toan Do of the World Bank looked at the roots of Nepal's conflict from a variety of angles. Investing in poverty reduction strategies is a key for peace, Iyer says.
  
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 Too many democracies are ruled by corrupt leaders, says HBS professor Eric Werker. So how about letting good corporate citizens run for elected office in Third World regions?
  
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