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Is Nepal Moving Toward a Socialism-Oriented Federal State or a Capitalist Economy? A Systems-Level Reflection on Nepal’s FY 2026/27 Budget

The Constitution of Nepal defines Nepal as a “socialism-oriented federal democratic republican state.” Multiple election cycles since the Maoist insurgency suggest that democracy has matured considerably. Political parties broadly operating within the republican democratic framework have consistently remained at the center of political competition. The most recent election, following the Gen-Z movement, arguably strengthened the foundations of the republican system. Political actors advocating a return to monarchy remained on the margins and failed to translate public unrest into electoral dominance. Historically, pro-monarchy sentiment tends to gain visibility when governments fail to deliver expected outcomes. The Gen-Z movement represented perhaps the strongest expression of dissatisfaction with the status quo political order. If the Nepali public genuinely favored restoration of monarchy, that election cycle would have provided an ideal opportunity for monarchy-supporting forces to emerge as a dominant political alternative. Instead, voters largely endorsed parties committed to republican democracy, reinforcing the democratic republican trajectory of the country. Yet another constitutional question remains unresolved: while Nepal appears committed to republican democracy, is it also moving toward becoming a socialism-oriented federal state? This article adopts a devil’s advocate perspective to examine whether the latest fiscal budget advances that constitutional aspiration or whether it reflects a different economic direction.

The Budget Represents a Development-State Strategy

Viewed from a systems perspective, the budget rests on a coherent developmental logic. Its central objectives are to accelerate growth through productive investment, strengthen state capacity through reform and digitization, and attract domestic, diaspora, and foreign investment. The underlying diagnosis appears reasonable. Nepal’s challenge is not merely a shortage of money but low productivity, weak state capacity, fragmented development efforts, and bureaucratic friction. The budget attempts to connect infrastructure, energy, agriculture, tourism, technology, and investment into a more integrated economic architecture. Borrowing is presented not as a tool for consumption but as an instrument for productivity-enhancing investment. From this perspective, the budget is essentially a wager on state capacity. If government institutions become more effective, projects are completed on time, corruption is reduced, and investment translates into economic growth, then higher borrowing may be justified. Many countries such as South Korea and Vietnam that successfully modernized followed versions of this strategy. The budget therefore deserves credit for attempting to move the conversation beyond annual expenditures toward a broader development framework.

Is the Budget Fundamentally a Trickle-Down Strategy?

A central question is whether the budget’s theory of change resembles a form of trickle-down economics. Much of the strategy focuses on investment promotion, infrastructure expansion, digitization, regulatory reform, business facilitation, and productivity growth. The implicit assumption appears to be that economic growth will eventually spread throughout society through employment generation, enterprise creation, and broader economic opportunities. The concern is not whether growth is desirable. The concern is whether the benefits of growth will reach marginalized populations quickly and equitably enough. Critics may reasonably ask whether the budget places greater emphasis on investors, businesses, and the middle class than on direct improvements in the economic conditions of vulnerable communities. If economic gains remain concentrated among those already positioned to benefit from investment opportunities, the constitutional aspiration of a socialism-oriented state becomes harder to reconcile with actual policy outcomes.

Do Specific Policy Choices Reflect a Capitalist Rather Than Socialism-Oriented Direction?

Several policy signals raise broader questions about the state’s economic philosophy. First, taxes imposed on education and health services are likely to be passed on to consumers unless strong regulatory mechanisms prevent it. If the objective is to increase reliance on public education and public healthcare, improving the quality and competitiveness of those services may be a more effective first step than creating additional costs within private alternatives. Second, electricity consumption thresholds before tax appear low relative to the growing electrification of modern households. As families adopt induction cooking, electric vehicles, heat pumps, and other appliances, many middle-income households could exceed these thresholds. The result may unintentionally encourage continued reliance on gas, firewood, or other fossil-fuel alternatives. If the objective is to redirect electricity toward industrial use, expanding generation capacity may be more sustainable than discouraging household consumption.

Third, enthusiasm for data centers, AI, remote work, and digital services raises a deeper strategic question. Is Nepal building on its own long-term comparative advantages, or is it once again responding primarily to incentives created elsewhere? Nepal previously moved away from potentially transformative assets such as electric public transport systems, ropeways, and large-scale reservoir hydropower development, and  increasingly relied on labor export. The concern is not that digital industries are undesirable, but whether Nepal is repeating a pattern of chasing externally driven opportunities without a clearly articulated national development vision.

These examples create an impression that the budget may be nudging Nepal toward a model closer to contemporary market capitalism than toward the socialism-oriented framework envisioned by the constitution. Ironically, some parts of the capitalist Americas are currently witnessing renewed interest in democratic-socialist ideas and stronger social welfare policies, while Nepal appears to be emphasizing investment-led growth and market incentives.

The Real Debate may not Socialism Versus Capitalism

As the world is witnessing a renewed interest in democratic-socialist ideas and stronger social welfare, the deeper issue may not be whether Nepal is becoming socialist or capitalist country. The more important question is whether the assumptions underpinning the strategy prove correct. Several unintended consequences deserve attention. First, the key question is whether Nepal can finally convert borrowing into productive assets rather than accumulating debt without generating sufficient returns. Second, growth alone does not guarantee broad-based prosperity. The strategy assumes that gains from investment will spread through jobs, enterprise creation, and economic opportunity reaching marginalized communities. History suggests this outcome is possible but far from automatic. Third concern is about governance. The budget assumes improvements in administrative efficiency, project execution, corruption control, bureaucratic coordination, and institutional discipline. If these governance preconditions fail, borrowing could become another source of fiscal stress and public resentment rather than a catalyst for development. Fourth, the budget contains numerous concepts—corridors, processing, digitization, investment facilitation, infrastructure, tourism, and energy. Yet the overarching economic vision remains somewhat implicit. It is unclear whether these initiatives are components of a strategic coherent national development strategy or simply a collection of individually attractive policies held together by optimism rather than a clearly articulated economic vision. The assumption appears to be that combining these fragments will naturally produce prosperity, which deserves scrutiny.

The fifth concerns Nepal’s long-term development challenge. For more than four decades, billions of rupees have been invested in expanding road access into hill and mountain districts. While connectivity improved significantly, many districts continue to experience population decline as young people migrate to cities or overseas employment. Agricultural land is increasingly abandoned, wildlife pressures have intensified, and local economic opportunities remain limited. This experience suggests that infrastructure alone does not guarantee development. The more fundamental challenge may be employment generation, entrepreneurship, agricultural modernization, and innovation. A clearer budgetary focus on urban and rural entrepreneurship could potentially provide a more direct response to youth migration. Finance, training, vocational education, pilot programs, market access, digital economy initiatives, grants, loans, mentoring, and long-term support mechanisms could then function as supporting pillars around that central objective.

Finally, Nepal’s strategic location between India and China remains an underdeveloped dimension of national economic planning. The bridge-economy concept appears indirectly through investments in connectivity, energy, logistics, and regional development, but it remains insufficiently explicit. Positioning Nepal within the evolving economic geography of Asia may ultimately prove as important as any individual budget allocation.

Concluding, the budget reflects a serious attempt to accelerate growth, strengthen state capacity, and attract productive investment. Those objectives are difficult to oppose. However, important questions remain: are some policy choices moving Nepal closer to a market-capitalist model and trickle down economy than to a socialism-oriented nation; is there a sufficiently explicit economic vision connecting the many initiatives contained in the budget; can Nepal finally overcome its historic weakness in execution?The ultimate test will not be the size of the budget, the ambition of the plans, or the sophistication of the theories behind them. It will be whether the strategy creates productive employment, broad-based opportunity, stronger institutions, and a development pathway that keeps young Nepali invested in the country’s future. Efficiency can accelerate development. But democratic legitimacy, social inclusion, and long-term national purpose ultimately determine whether development becomes sustainable.

Note: This article is inspired by the article “New Team, New Budget: Nepal’s Big Development Bet [Part 1: Big Budget. Big Dreams. Big Assumptions.” published by Dr. Alok Bohora in his Substack website “Nepal Unplugged”. I was acknowledged in his successive article for contributing to the discussion. This article combines my thoughts and my synthesis of above mentioned article.

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Is Nepal Moving Toward a Socialism-Oriented Federal State or a Capitalist Economy? A Systems-Level Reflection on Nepal’s FY 2026/27 Budget

The Constitution of Nepal defines Nepal as a “socialism-oriented federal democratic republican state.” Multiple election cycles since the Maoist insurgency suggest that democracy has matured considerably. Political parties broadly operating within the republican democratic framework have consistently remained at the center of political competition. The most recent election, following the Gen-Z movement, arguably strengthened the foundations of the republican system. Political actors advocating a return to monarchy remained on the margins and failed to translate public unrest into electoral dominance. Historically, pro-monarchy sentiment tends to gain visibility when governments fail to deliver expected outcomes. The Gen-Z movement represented perhaps the strongest expression of dissatisfaction with the status quo political order. If the Nepali public genuinely favored restoration of monarchy, that election cycle would have provided an ideal opportunity for monarchy-supporting forces to emerge as a dominant political alternative. Instead, voters largely endorsed parties committed to republican democracy, reinforcing the democratic republican trajectory of the country. Yet another constitutional question remains unresolved: while Nepal appears committed to republican democracy, is it also moving toward becoming a socialism-oriented federal state? This article adopts a devil’s advocate perspective to examine whether the latest fiscal budget advances that constitutional aspiration or whether it reflects a different economic direction.

The Budget Represents a Development-State Strategy

Viewed from a systems perspective, the budget rests on a coherent developmental logic. Its central objectives are to accelerate growth through productive investment, strengthen state capacity through reform and digitization, and attract domestic, diaspora, and foreign investment. The underlying diagnosis appears reasonable. Nepal’s challenge is not merely a shortage of money but low productivity, weak state capacity, fragmented development efforts, and bureaucratic friction. The budget attempts to connect infrastructure, energy, agriculture, tourism, technology, and investment into a more integrated economic architecture. Borrowing is presented not as a tool for consumption but as an instrument for productivity-enhancing investment. From this perspective, the budget is essentially a wager on state capacity. If government institutions become more effective, projects are completed on time, corruption is reduced, and investment translates into economic growth, then higher borrowing may be justified. Many countries such as South Korea and Vietnam that successfully modernized followed versions of this strategy. The budget therefore deserves credit for attempting to move the conversation beyond annual expenditures toward a broader development framework.

Is the Budget Fundamentally a Trickle-Down Strategy?

A central question is whether the budget’s theory of change resembles a form of trickle-down economics. Much of the strategy focuses on investment promotion, infrastructure expansion, digitization, regulatory reform, business facilitation, and productivity growth. The implicit assumption appears to be that economic growth will eventually spread throughout society through employment generation, enterprise creation, and broader economic opportunities. The concern is not whether growth is desirable. The concern is whether the benefits of growth will reach marginalized populations quickly and equitably enough. Critics may reasonably ask whether the budget places greater emphasis on investors, businesses, and the middle class than on direct improvements in the economic conditions of vulnerable communities. If economic gains remain concentrated among those already positioned to benefit from investment opportunities, the constitutional aspiration of a socialism-oriented state becomes harder to reconcile with actual policy outcomes.

Do Specific Policy Choices Reflect a Capitalist Rather Than Socialism-Oriented Direction?

Several policy signals raise broader questions about the state’s economic philosophy. First, taxes imposed on education and health services are likely to be passed on to consumers unless strong regulatory mechanisms prevent it. If the objective is to increase reliance on public education and public healthcare, improving the quality and competitiveness of those services may be a more effective first step than creating additional costs within private alternatives. Second, electricity consumption thresholds before tax appear low relative to the growing electrification of modern households. As families adopt induction cooking, electric vehicles, heat pumps, and other appliances, many middle-income households could exceed these thresholds. The result may unintentionally encourage continued reliance on gas, firewood, or other fossil-fuel alternatives. If the objective is to redirect electricity toward industrial use, expanding generation capacity may be more sustainable than discouraging household consumption.

Third, enthusiasm for data centers, AI, remote work, and digital services raises a deeper strategic question. Is Nepal building on its own long-term comparative advantages, or is it once again responding primarily to incentives created elsewhere? Nepal previously moved away from potentially transformative assets such as electric public transport systems, ropeways, and large-scale reservoir hydropower development, and  increasingly relied on labor export. The concern is not that digital industries are undesirable, but whether Nepal is repeating a pattern of chasing externally driven opportunities without a clearly articulated national development vision.

These examples create an impression that the budget may be nudging Nepal toward a model closer to contemporary market capitalism than toward the socialism-oriented framework envisioned by the constitution. Ironically, some parts of the capitalist Americas are currently witnessing renewed interest in democratic-socialist ideas and stronger social welfare policies, while Nepal appears to be emphasizing investment-led growth and market incentives.

The Real Debate may not Socialism Versus Capitalism

As the world is witnessing a renewed interest in democratic-socialist ideas and stronger social welfare, the deeper issue may not be whether Nepal is becoming socialist or capitalist country. The more important question is whether the assumptions underpinning the strategy prove correct. Several unintended consequences deserve attention. First, the key question is whether Nepal can finally convert borrowing into productive assets rather than accumulating debt without generating sufficient returns. Second, growth alone does not guarantee broad-based prosperity. The strategy assumes that gains from investment will spread through jobs, enterprise creation, and economic opportunity reaching marginalized communities. History suggests this outcome is possible but far from automatic. Third concern is about governance. The budget assumes improvements in administrative efficiency, project execution, corruption control, bureaucratic coordination, and institutional discipline. If these governance preconditions fail, borrowing could become another source of fiscal stress and public resentment rather than a catalyst for development. Fourth, the budget contains numerous concepts—corridors, processing, digitization, investment facilitation, infrastructure, tourism, and energy. Yet the overarching economic vision remains somewhat implicit. It is unclear whether these initiatives are components of a strategic coherent national development strategy or simply a collection of individually attractive policies held together by optimism rather than a clearly articulated economic vision. The assumption appears to be that combining these fragments will naturally produce prosperity, which deserves scrutiny.

The fifth concerns Nepal’s long-term development challenge. For more than four decades, billions of rupees have been invested in expanding road access into hill and mountain districts. While connectivity improved significantly, many districts continue to experience population decline as young people migrate to cities or overseas employment. Agricultural land is increasingly abandoned, wildlife pressures have intensified, and local economic opportunities remain limited. This experience suggests that infrastructure alone does not guarantee development. The more fundamental challenge may be employment generation, entrepreneurship, agricultural modernization, and innovation. A clearer budgetary focus on urban and rural entrepreneurship could potentially provide a more direct response to youth migration. Finance, training, vocational education, pilot programs, market access, digital economy initiatives, grants, loans, mentoring, and long-term support mechanisms could then function as supporting pillars around that central objective.

Finally, Nepal’s strategic location between India and China remains an underdeveloped dimension of national economic planning. The bridge-economy concept appears indirectly through investments in connectivity, energy, logistics, and regional development, but it remains insufficiently explicit. Positioning Nepal within the evolving economic geography of Asia may ultimately prove as important as any individual budget allocation.

Concluding, the budget reflects a serious attempt to accelerate growth, strengthen state capacity, and attract productive investment. Those objectives are difficult to oppose. However, important questions remain: are some policy choices moving Nepal closer to a market-capitalist model and trickle down economy than to a socialism-oriented nation; is there a sufficiently explicit economic vision connecting the many initiatives contained in the budget; can Nepal finally overcome its historic weakness in execution?The ultimate test will not be the size of the budget, the ambition of the plans, or the sophistication of the theories behind them. It will be whether the strategy creates productive employment, broad-based opportunity, stronger institutions, and a development pathway that keeps young Nepali invested in the country’s future. Efficiency can accelerate development. But democratic legitimacy, social inclusion, and long-term national purpose ultimately determine whether development becomes sustainable.

Note: This article is inspired by the article “New Team, New Budget: Nepal’s Big Development Bet [Part 1: Big Budget. Big Dreams. Big Assumptions.” published by Dr. Alok Bohora in his Substack website “Nepal Unplugged”. I was acknowledged in his successive article for contributing to the discussion. This article combines my thoughts and my synthesis of above mentioned article.

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Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future
#Canada #Politics #PublicService #Government #Economy #PublicPolicy #MarkCarney #StateCapacity #PublicTrust #CivilService #Governance #Taxpayers #Trade #Leadership #Federal #Populism
https://the-14.com/canadians-not-confident-public-service-is-prepared-for-the-future/

Canadians not confident public service is prepared for the future
#Canada #Politics #PublicService #Government #Economy #PublicPolicy #MarkCarney #StateCapacity #PublicTrust #CivilService #Governance #Taxpayers #Trade #Leadership #Federal #Populism
https://the-14.com/canadians-not-confident-public-service-is-prepared-for-the-future/

OnlineFirst - "Epistemic derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance" by Rosie Collington and Jacob Hasselbalch:

#energyplanning #climategovernance #decarbonisation #finance #energymodelling #statecapacity

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X261449499

OnlineFirst - "Epistemic derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance" by Rosie Collington and Jacob Hasselbalch:

#energyplanning #climategovernance #decarbonisation #finance #energymodelling #statecapacity

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X261449499

"We are ardent believers in the power of government to improve people’s lives, and appreciate the frustration with unnecessary delays. In some cases, especially exclusionary zoning and other land use rules in wealthy suburbs, the current legal restrictions are in fact excessive. However, the proper answer to government dysfunction and the authoritarian threat at home and abroad is largely the same today as it was during the New Deal: Rather than railroad the public with top-down directives or megaprojects imposed by Washington and state capitols, we must renew our national commitment to democracy and public participation with ambitious acts of bold economic governance.

The Trump Administration’s ability to move with lightning speed to impose unwanted infrastructure like Alligator Alcatraz on unwilling host communities, militarize cities with masked police and troops, and increase surveillance of Americans makes clear the urgency of balancing the state’s capacity to act decisively with the need for democratic legitimacy. “State capacity” is not inherently good: The what and how of state action matter.

Moreover, in the medium and long term, the tradeoff between state capacity and democratic participation disappears—and even reverses. Public input into government decisions, including in environmental review procedures, not only restrains the worst tendencies of unaccountable state power but also enhances the capacity of the state itself, by providing valuable feedback to state technocrats about what is working and what isn’t. While turning off these feedback channels may generate a sugar high of quick results, doing so, as state capacity liberals propose, dooms effective governance further down the road. Top-down technocracy is brittle, and availing ourselves of shortcuts around the public is ultimately self-defeating."

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/rethinking-state-capacity/

#StateCapacity #Bureaucracy #Abundance #DemocraticParticipation #ParticipatoryDemocracy #Democracy

"We are ardent believers in the power of government to improve people’s lives, and appreciate the frustration with unnecessary delays. In some cases, especially exclusionary zoning and other land use rules in wealthy suburbs, the current legal restrictions are in fact excessive. However, the proper answer to government dysfunction and the authoritarian threat at home and abroad is largely the same today as it was during the New Deal: Rather than railroad the public with top-down directives or megaprojects imposed by Washington and state capitols, we must renew our national commitment to democracy and public participation with ambitious acts of bold economic governance.

The Trump Administration’s ability to move with lightning speed to impose unwanted infrastructure like Alligator Alcatraz on unwilling host communities, militarize cities with masked police and troops, and increase surveillance of Americans makes clear the urgency of balancing the state’s capacity to act decisively with the need for democratic legitimacy. “State capacity” is not inherently good: The what and how of state action matter.

Moreover, in the medium and long term, the tradeoff between state capacity and democratic participation disappears—and even reverses. Public input into government decisions, including in environmental review procedures, not only restrains the worst tendencies of unaccountable state power but also enhances the capacity of the state itself, by providing valuable feedback to state technocrats about what is working and what isn’t. While turning off these feedback channels may generate a sugar high of quick results, doing so, as state capacity liberals propose, dooms effective governance further down the road. Top-down technocracy is brittle, and availing ourselves of shortcuts around the public is ultimately self-defeating."

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/rethinking-state-capacity/

#StateCapacity #Bureaucracy #Abundance #DemocraticParticipation #ParticipatoryDemocracy #Democracy

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/incompetent-and-doomed-privatisation-has-made-a-dads-army-of-the-state

>> ...a system that has generated vast profits for private corporations while undermining the decision-making capacity of the state and leaving unheeded the aspirations of ordinary people. <<

Can you hear, Keir?

#Privatisation #UKPolitics #Politics #StateCapacity #KenanMalik

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/incompetent-and-doomed-privatisation-has-made-a-dads-army-of-the-state

>> ...a system that has generated vast profits for private corporations while undermining the decision-making capacity of the state and leaving unheeded the aspirations of ordinary people. <<

Can you hear, Keir?

#Privatisation #UKPolitics #Politics #StateCapacity #KenanMalik

How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies https://www.wired.com/story/china-honkers-elite-cyber-spies/ #Security/CyberattacksandHacks #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #StateCapacity #Security

How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies https://www.wired.com/story/china-honkers-elite-cyber-spies/ #Security/CyberattacksandHacks #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #StateCapacity #Security

Really grateful to be able to present at today’s #BanffForum in Whitehorse – thanks to Lydia, Jennifer, and the team for having me there!

For anyone interested, here’s the slides and links that I shared today: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnUGR2ya-hsAyYX8bWTmYTTYHDO4d7AnyK2BPz8vMls/edit #statecapacity

Really grateful to be able to present at today’s #BanffForum in Whitehorse – thanks to Lydia, Jennifer, and the team for having me there!

For anyone interested, here’s the slides and links that I shared today: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnUGR2ya-hsAyYX8bWTmYTTYHDO4d7AnyK2BPz8vMls/edit #statecapacity

NBD, just 🔥 and 🎤 drops from @sboots in a letter to the head of the public service in the government of Canada:
https://sboots.ca/2023/11/06/to-the-clerk-and-friends/

“a set of radical (but implementable) ideas that would make the public service better equipped to handle the challenges of today and tomorrow” #statecapacity

NBD, just 🔥 and 🎤 drops from @sboots in a letter to the head of the public service in the government of Canada:
https://sboots.ca/2023/11/06/to-the-clerk-and-friends/

“a set of radical (but implementable) ideas that would make the public service better equipped to handle the challenges of today and tomorrow” #statecapacity

How does #democracy, #inclusion and #participation relate to the #resilience of our society to #collapse? 🌋 The research I reviewed shows that all those factors are important to have a stable society during catastrophic events. However, they only work if you also have the #StateCapacity to implement the interventions needed.

New post in my #LivingLiteratureReview about #SocietalCollapse: https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/participation-inclusion-democracy

How does #democracy, #inclusion and #participation relate to the #resilience of our society to #collapse? 🌋 The research I reviewed shows that all those factors are important to have a stable society during catastrophic events. However, they only work if you also have the #StateCapacity to implement the interventions needed.

New post in my #LivingLiteratureReview about #SocietalCollapse: https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/p/participation-inclusion-democracy

“The Transit Cost Project has a detailed analysis of infrastructure costs around the world, and finds that many European countries build infrastructure at reasonable costs, and host competent civil servants who manage them effectively. The UK — and especially the US — build far more expensive.”

#statecapacity https://open.substack.com/pub/arpitrage/p/correcting-the-europe-is-stagnant?r=1mkdp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

“The Transit Cost Project has a detailed analysis of infrastructure costs around the world, and finds that many European countries build infrastructure at reasonable costs, and host competent civil servants who manage them effectively. The UK — and especially the US — build far more expensive.”

#statecapacity https://open.substack.com/pub/arpitrage/p/correcting-the-europe-is-stagnant?r=1mkdp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

New in @PLOS Global Public Health:

Behind the paper: how to build early nutrition interventions in a fragile, conflict affected state

On the "Speaking of Medicine" blog

#nutrition
#PublicHealth
#resilience
#StateCapacity

https://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2023/04/13/behind-the-paper-how-to-build-early-nutrition-interventions-in-a-fragile-conflict-affected-state/

New in @PLOS Global Public Health:

Behind the paper: how to build early nutrition interventions in a fragile, conflict affected state

On the "Speaking of Medicine" blog

#nutrition
#PublicHealth
#resilience
#StateCapacity

https://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2023/04/13/behind-the-paper-how-to-build-early-nutrition-interventions-in-a-fragile-conflict-affected-state/

#Jobs #statecapacity #india
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RT @JitendraAnthwal
#भरती घोटालों के विरोध में देहरादून में प्रदर्शन कर रहे छात्रों-युवाओं पर वीरवार को हुए बर्बर लाठीचार्ज और नेतृत्वकर्ताओं को संगीन धाराओं में मुकदमा दर्ज कर जेल में डालने के विरोध में समूचे #उत्तराखंड में विरोध प्रदर्शन। हालांकि, जल्दबाजी में आहूत उत्तराखंड बंद असरदार नहीं रहा।
https://twitter.com/JitendraAnthwal/status/1623966341802913795

#statecapacity #jobs #india #Governance @IndiaG2O
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RT @JitendraAnthwal
उत्तराखंड में पिछले 22 साल से भर्ती दर भर्ती हो रहे पेपर लीक और घोटालों से युवा हताश हो चुके हैं। विरोध में आवाज उठाने वाले युवाओं का पुलिसिया दमन हो रहा। ऐसे में काशीपुर व पिथौरागढ़ से देहरादून पहुंची इन बेटियों के आंसुओं और आक्रोश का कोई जवाब है सरकार के पास?
@pushkardhami https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623997381925822464
https://twitter.com/JitendraAnthwal/status/1623997381925822464

#statecapacity #resource
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RT @ChaibasaPolice
चाईबासा जिला के चक्रधरपुर थाना अंतर्गत रैपिड एक्शन फ़ोर्स 106 बटा. और चाईबासा पुलिस ने संयुक्त रूप से चलाया स्वच्छता एवं वृक्षारोपण अभियान:

सुरक्षा, शांति और स्वच्छता तथा पर्यावरण सुरक्षा का दिया संदेश।
https://twitter.com/ChaibasaPolice/status/1616127992622874624

#statecapacity #municipal #governance
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RT @aicctukar
We have been informed that the Govt. of K'taka will make all directly employed pourakarmikas (sweepers) permanent workers. This is a tremendous victory for the workers who went on strike and struggled for years on end demanding justice. Inquilab Zindabad!
https://twitter.com/aicctukar/status/1615376120018501632

I think it's worth celebrating that the FAA basically solved the problem in under 30 minutes. #StateCapacity

That said, it being national breaking news is a function of the fact that journalists fly at rates no normal person would dream of.

I think it's worth celebrating that the FAA basically solved the problem in under 30 minutes. #StateCapacity

That said, it being national breaking news is a function of the fact that journalists fly at rates no normal person would dream of.

#jobs #government #statecapacity #india
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RT @BiharTeacherCan

https://twitter.com/BiharTeacherCan/status/1607542647081807872

#statecapacity #government #Jobs
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RT @The_Mooknayak
राजस्थान: वरिष्ठ अध्यापक भर्ती परीक्षा का पेपर लीक, नहीं थम रहा सिलसिला

रिपोर्ट- @mahir_mooknayak

पूरी खबर @The_Mooknayak पर पढ़ें👇🏼
https://www.themooknayak.com/education/paper-leak-of-senior-teacher-recruitment-exam

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1rmxPkEnXODJN
https://twitter.com/The_Mooknayak/status/1607406839796465670

#statecapacity #jobs
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RT @AlokChikku
रेलवे ग्रुप डी का रिजल्ट आ गया है. EWS के कट-ऑफ, ओबीसी के कट-ऑफ से 10-15 नम्बर तक कम है.
जो लोग EWS सर्टिफिकेट बना रखें हैं उनमें से 90% लोग संपन्न होते हैं मैं ऐसे लोगों को पर्सनली जानता हूँ जिनके घर के प्रत्येक रूम में एसी लगा है ।
1/2
https://twitter.com/AlokChikku/status/1606171702467010561

#statecapacity
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RT @ShyamRangeela
Ek aur paper leak hua aur cancel
#RPSC #Paperleak #rajasthan https://twitter.com/shyamrangeela/status/1600389570821902336
https://twitter.com/ShyamRangeela/status/1606512144916545540

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/odisha-abolishes-contractual-recruitment-system/articleshow/94884440.cms #statecapacity #jobs

#statecapacity
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RT @HansrajMeena
उत्तराखंड में सिंचाई विभाग में रिक्त संयुक्त कनिष्ठ अभियंता के 228 पदों पर भर्ती की मांग को लेकर बेरोजगार देहरादून में आमरण अनशन पर बैठे है। विभाग द्वारा 2021 में 1000पदों के लिए भर्ती करानी थी लेकीन परीक्षा से पूर्व ही सिंचाई विभाग के 228पद हटा दिए। @pushkardhami शर्म आनी चाहिए।
https://twitter.com/HansrajMeena/status/1577168516876161025

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RT @BrendanMIRROR
One Professor at multiple medical colleges!

A professor of physiology at GMERS Himmatnagar MCH was on July 26, transferred to the new Porbandar MCH. After NMC inspection at Porbandar on July 29, he was transferred to the new Morbi MCH.

How are these inspections taking place?
https://twitter.com/BrendanMIRROR/status/1553380526777442306

#jobs #vacancies #statecapacity important to pair this with millions of PMUs on one hand and within contractual and outsourced workers
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RT @_maadhyam_
Govt provides detailed #data on #vacancies in central govt departments (as on 01.03.2020).
Railways, Defence (Civil), Home Affairs, Posts, Science & Tech, Audit & Accounts, Revenue show large vacancies!
Data on backlog vacancies unfilled since 2016 for SC,ST,OBCs also given.
https://twitter.com/_maadhyam_/status/1504416098778636293

#Jobs #india #government #vacancies #statecapacity
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RT @ahmedabadmirror
આપણું અમદાવાદ

GSSSB Plays It Safe, Postpones Clerk Exam
https://twitter.com/ahmedabadmirror/status/1491766411018047493

#vacancies #india #government #statecapacity
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RT @the_hindu
Nearly 30% positions are vacant in middle to senior management rank in various Central government Ministries as the Union government has not promoted officials of the Central Secretariat Service in the past six years, reports @vijaita
https://trib.al/3zje9ZJ
https://twitter.com/the_hindu/status/1486564672031571971