Index Page numbers for entries occurring in fi gures are suffi xed by f and those for entries in tables by t.
Access to government services: changes in, 17–19, 18t; to education, 18t; to extension services, 17, 18–19, 19t; to irrigation, 19, 21, 23–24, 23t, 29. See also Public investments
Agricultural development: public spending on, 12, 13, 15t, 16–17, 16f; regional imbalances in, 4
Agricultural Development Bank, 5 Agricultural extension. See Extension services Agricultural growth: in Nepal, 5, 6t; policy objectives, xiii, 3–5, 31; poverty reduction related to, 1; targets for, 4t
Agricultural income growth, 25, 26, 27t, 28t, 30
Agricultural Perspective Plan (APP), 3–4, 31 Agricultural wages, 9 APP. See Agricultural Perspective Plan
Budgetary planning and implementation process, 10–11
Civil confl ict: deaths in, 21; extension services disrupted by, 29, 31; impact of, 21; migration related to, 1, 9; rural economic disruptions caused by, 1, 2; security-related expenditures and, 11, 12 Constituent Assembly, 10, 11 Constitution of Nepal, 10
Consumption growth, impact of rural investments on, 25–26, 27t, 28t, 29, 30
Debt. See Loans Dercon, S., 25
Districts: Kathmandu, 12–13, 17; populations of, 12, 14f; public expenditures in, 12–13, 14f, 16, 16f, 17f, 18f. See also Regions
Economic growth rates, 6t
Education: access to, 18t; public spending on, 12
Employment sectors, poverty rates by, 5, 7t Extension services: access to, 17, 18–19, 19t; disruptions from civil confl ict, 29, 31;
impact of, xiii, 21, 23t, 24, 26, 29, 30–31; investments in, 5; land values and, 21, 23t, 24, 30
Financial Administration Act of 1998, 10–11 Five-Year Plan, Ninth, xiii, 3, 4t, 5, 9 Foreign grants and loans, 13, 15t, 16
Hedonic estimation: advantages of, 24; description of approach, 20, 21–22; results of, 22–24, 23t, 30
Hill and mountain regions, 4, 12, 16, 17 Household income sources, 8t, 9 Household survey data, 20–21, 25, 29
Incomes: agricultural, 25, 26, 27t, 28t, 30; agricultural wages, 9; sources of, 8t, 9. See also Poverty reduction Inequality, 5
Informal Sector Service Centre, 21 Infrastructure investments. See Extension services; Irrigation; Public investments; Roads
Irrigation: access to, 19, 29; expansion of, 4, 19; impact of, xiii, 21, 23–24, 23t, 26, 29, 30, 31; public spending on, 12, 13, 15t, 16–17, 17f
Jacoby, H., 21, 22, 24, 30
Kathmandu District: public spending in, 12–13; road construction in, 17
Landholdings, poverty rates and, 5, 7t, 9 Land values: access to irrigation and, 21, 23–24, 23t; effects of extension services on, xiii, 21, 23t, 24, 30; effects of roads on, 21, 22–23, 30
Loans: foreign, 13, 15t, 16; payments on, 12
Maoist insurgency. See Civil confl ict Migration: remittances, 9, 26; rural-urban, 1, 9 Ministry of Finance (MOF), 10–11 Mountain regions, 4, 12, 16, 17
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