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| Project Description Nepal Study Center is registered under the College of Arts and Sciences, UNM. There is a research room dedicated to the Center, which is housed in the department of economics. In addition to a good sized research room, the department of economics has also given an additional room for the center's visiting scholars. The NSC's research room has four computers, several econometric software, GIS capacity, and high speed internet connection. Its activities include: building research capacity, journal publication (HJDD and LDNB), conferences, publishing proceedings, and elctronic research repository. The central mission of the Nepal Study Center is to promote knowledge and information sharing between people interested in studying Nepal and the Himalayan and South Asian area. In particular, the center hopes to facilitate research and other academic collaboration between academics in the United States and Nepal and Nepalese and South Asian academics living abroad. The 1st Himalayan Policy Research Conference is the milestone event in its growth in achieving that goal. It is hoped that these scholars attending the conference and their future research activities and collaborations will result in pertinent, accurate, and cutting-edge research on the economic and political aspects of the region. To accomplish this mission, NSC has set the following goals: 1. By the establishment of electronic journals and online discussion forums, to allow Nepalese and others to quickly and easily exchange information for research collaboration. 2. To recruit talented and enterprising graduate and post-doc students from Nepal and the Himalayan and South Asian region, and provide an environment for the high-quality training of these students. 3. Form networks of contacts in Nepal and worldwide to facilitate research collaboration. 4. Organize conferences focusing on the economics and politics of the South Asian region. 5. Develop student and professor exchange programs with partner universities in Nepal. 6. Use cutting-edge research techniques to examine and research the economics and politics of Nepal and the South Asian region. 7. Increase policy researchers influence in national discussions of Nepal and the South Asian and Himalayan area. 8. Focus academic efforts on Nepal and the region and expand the knowledge base available regarding that region. Eligibility It is open to everyone who has an interest on South Asian policy issues and debates broadly define under a theme: development, democracy, conflict and the environment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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