"Good Reads"

• Rajju Malla Dhakal, an insider of the foreign aid apparatus in Nepal, discusses the various issues surrounding the donor-recipient relationship and the effectiveness of foreign aid. My Op-Ed a while back touched on some of the same issues and I am glad to see that people from within the aid-development nexus are blowing the whistle! 

• Nepal's first PM with a PhD signs a proposal to "chart out a stringent anti-corruption bill. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

• Mukesh Khanal, an economist at the Institute for Integrated Development Studies, discusses the free-rider problem (amongst others) related to the proposed federalism in Nepal.

• Kul Chandra Gautam provides friendly advice to the Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai and lists "10 essential things" he must do to succeed. Number one on the list is to "reassess the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideology in the 21st century."