Nepal: Poor performance in Bertelsmann Transformation Index

One of the distinct features of Nepali politics is that the country has been in transition for a prolonged period of time. If modern political history of Nepal is to be traced back from 1950s then the country has been in transition from one type of regime to another – from absolute monarchy to parliamentary democracy to federal democratic republic.

However, there is one caveat. Dissenting voices are being heard in the streets that there have been changes in the “system” ( bebastha ) sans any changes in the “condition” ( awastha ). This bebastha-awastha hypothesis can best be tested by gleaming through the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI).