There was an article published in “the guardian” reveals the status of Nepali migrant labor in Qatar (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars-world-cup-slaves). After
five days there is another article published by World Bank under the name “Nepal:
Agility in Fragility”(http://www.worldbank.org/en/results/2013/04/16/nepal-agility-in-fragility ) with lots of hopes and optimism to Nepali. These two
articles are closely related to Nepal’s extraordinary performance in the achievement
of millennium development goals.
Despite
prolonged political uncertainties Nepal’s achievement to halve extreme poverty,
ahead of time and impressive improvement towards the achievement of other MDGs
in the areas of human development, primary education, maternal and infant
mortality, gender parity, gender equality and women’s empowerment is really
considerable. The reason behind this development results are longstanding
partnerships with different agencies and
another hidden reason is inflow of remittance by exporting human manpower
in Arab countries, where workers are treated as objects as stated by The
guardian. But, they are compelled to go foreign country just to make a living
because of lacking opportunities in home country. This works for human
development by alleviating poverty for short term but not in sustainable manner.
This better news to report and say but culture of entrepreneurship development,
sovereignty of Nepali, share of agriculture on GDP, is degrading day by day.
Nepal government set the goal to graduate from the LDC status by 2022. But, we can see lots of
problems behind ambiguous goal rather than specific plans and ways of achieving
these goals. Hunger and extreme poverty will not with us in future but current political
scenario reflects further strengthening of different problems like brain drain,
trade deficit, corruption, food insecurity, energy crisis etc. Nepal ranks
among the most exposed to natural disasters
further exacerbated by the climate change but preparation is lacking to address
most horrible possible impacts like flooding and earth quake.
The one better
way to address all type of problems is economic development. For this, Political
parties have to create the environment, investors have to invest, bureaucrats
have to help by avoiding red tapism and every capable citizen of the country
has to work hard to exploit the opportunity in global markets within our
country. Then only we can send the message to the international community that
“our country is not the country of slaves”.