Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Some detail about Nepal

In 1989 the Communists and Congress, helped oust the Royal partyless dictatorial version of democracy,. and democracy started. But the king kept allot of power. The new system, started on the economic liberalization of many lands. The fact was that in most lands economic liberalisation was bad for the lower classes, most people, you know like South America, where it saw welfare, and subsidies cut, so seeing private companies and privatisation benefit the rich. But Nepal, was so poor, that economic liberalisation, did not see much state cuts. Whereas experts from IMF or whatever were able to sell South America and lands, cut this welfare cash, and state investment, in social services, Nepal's royalist elite had not seen helping the peasants as any use to their rich money grubbing, some wanted good for their people, but most wanted stuff for themselves. So privatisation did not see much bad, as their was little to privatise, so actually amazingly social services improved in Nepal, and life. But this was not good enough for many Nepalis, for a country still with more serfs and slaves, and child labourers than India per head at the time, poorer and with a lower life expectancy where 100s still did in famines, this seemed pointless, So democracy was not bringing in enough for them. Revolutionary Maoists started a small scale rebellion in areas of ethnic minorities usually in the west. The ruling Congress, and Communist and every so often royalists coalition had interference from the king, but unstable regimes, they were unable to crack down on the Maoist revolt, By the end of the decade there had been low thousands of deaths, The tactics of the Maoists were to take over areas and every so often attack state police and such. In the 1990s, welfare improved.

 

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