1. Opportunities and Threats in terms of
Economic Growth and Development
Presented by:
Prajwal Shrestha
MBA II ‘A’
Roll No: 18
Faculty:
Ms. Tejaswi Sharma
Wednesday, July
03, 2013

2. Contents
 Nepal’s Geographical Position.
 Nepal-India Relationship: An Overview
 Nepal-China Relationship: An Overview
 Indian Economy: A Glance
 Chinese Economy: A Glance
 Nepal’s situation
 Opportunities
 Threats
 What can be done?
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3. Nepal’s Position
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4. Nepal-India Relationship: An
Overview
 Ancient and close.
 Common ethnic, linguistic and cultural identities.
 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
 Open boarder.
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5. Nepal-China Relationship: An
Overview
 Old relationship history.
 Established diplomatic relations in 1955.
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6. Indian Economy: A Glance
10th largest in the world by nominal GDP. Adopted liberalization policy in 1991.

7. Chinese Economy: A Glance
World’s second largest economy. Largest exporter and
second largest importer.

8. GDP increase, 1990–1998 and 1990–
2006, in major countries

9. Nepal’s situation
Poorer and least developed.
Political
unrest.
Remittance based
economy.
Dependence on
agriculture.
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10. Opportunities
 Transit between India and China.
 Potential benefits to Nepal when playing a role of
transit point:
• Fees of various types to government.
• Setting up service centers, tea shops, hotels along the
road creating employment.
• Nepali people will learn new business.
• Exporters-Importers start to compare Nepal with other
countries in terms of export-import ease.
• Proximity with India-China will grow and this will
enhance Nepal’s goodwill with both the countries.
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11. Cont…..
• Earned about SAR62bn
(US$16.5bn)(NRS 14.26
Trillion) from the annual
pilgrimage rituals of Hajj
in 2012.
• Accounts for about 3
percent of the kingdom’s
gross domestic product.
Religious Tourism( competitive advantage)
An example of Saudi Arabia.
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12. Nepal has more…..
Attract Chinese Attract Indians
For Buddhist For Hindus
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13. Buddhists in China
• Chinese Buddhists at a
growing 18% to 20% of
the total population, or
around 300 million
people, thus making
China the country with
the most Buddhist
adherents in the world.
Hindus in India
• 80.5% of total
population around 827
million people, thus
making India the
country with the most
Hindu adherents in the
world.
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14. Threats
• Rivalry between India and China.
• Open border with India
• Activities of free Tibet Activist.
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15. What can be done?
 Economic (Development) Diplomacy.
 Relationship of Trust and Confidence with India
and China.
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16. Lastly
The best interest of Nepal is in nurturing a relationship
of trust and confidence with both India and China.
Rising China, Shining India and changing Nepal create
new opportunities for all sides to strengthen the age old
friendship for the benefit of the people of all three
countries in the days to come.
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