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The Center and its intellectual linkages have begun to attract interest of potential doctoral students from Nepal and elsewhere in South Asia. Currently we have five doctoral students from Nepal, and many more are inquiring about the program. The Center’s research strength and capacity in the context of the developing world, including Nepal, are attractive assets for students and the scholars alike. Several non-Nepali students (American, Bangladeshi, Chinese) are engaged in research with the Himalayan focus.
The Center is initiating important research programs in areas such as,
poverty mapping, vulnerability, social capital
GIS land use,
causes and consequences of conflict,
development, democracy, and good governance,
microsimulation,
environmental issues,
micro hydro,
healthcare for women and children
women's empowerment
ethnic, gender inequality, and ecological frootprints.
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An outfit like this would be of tremendous advantage to promote knowledge transfer, training, and exchanges that can include faculty exchanges with the Universities in Nepal as well (e.g., Kathmandu University).
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