Political shifts are not enough, Nepal needs monumental cultural shifts

While discussing development, most of us tend to concern ourselves with physical infrastructure, such as the road conditions we use on a daily basis, bridges, sidewalks, and, in general, our built surroundings. In the language of economists, the same concept of development is quantified and expressed through mathematical measures such as the Human Development Index (HDI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Gross National Income (GNI), economic growth rate, per capita income, and so on. Between how a common person perceives development and how economic theories define it, there is something that we often overlook. Beyond politics or even capital, there must be other factors that determine the favorability for development.