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Earthquake: Impact on Nepalese economy and women K. Shakya
Lowland Technology International Vol 18 No 2, Sep (2016)
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Nepal is one of the 20 most disaster-prone countries in the world. More people are killed by disasters in Nepal than in any other country in South Asia, making Nepal extremely vulnerable to different types of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, landslides, fire, drought and others. Hence, people faces big or small impact on overall. The aim of the article is to identify the impact of recent earthquake of 25th April and May 12th, 2015 on Nepalese economy and women in Nepal. The article is based on secondary information as published by different sources and further the article updates on economic loss of Nepal due to earthquake and it impact on Nepalese economy and women. It traces the historical background of the earthquake, which occurred in Nepal and follows to identify the impact of recent earthquake on people and properties (damaged by partially and fully). It also presents the loss on various sectors like social, productive, infrastructure and cross cutting sectors, which are indicator of Nepalese economy before and after earthquake. The article also further focuses on the requirement of resources to reconstruct and recover the damaged and lost sectors, concluding that the recent earthquake has greatly impact on Nepalese economy and women.
Status of Foreign Aid to Nepal’s Earthquake-2015 K. Shakya
Lowland Technology International Vol 22 No 1 (2020): Lowland Technology International Journal - Special Issue on: Engineering Geology
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Nepal is victimized by different types of natural disasters, likeearthquakes landslides, floods and others. On 25th April and May12th, 2015, Nepal had 7.8 and 7.3 magnitude respectivelyearthquakes that struck central of Nepal. The objective of thepaper focuses on status of foreign aid to Nepal’s earthquake-2015. The paper presents the donor’s commitment anddisbursement during the earthquake -2015 in Nepal. Therefore,the study is descriptive, analytical and exploratory. The study isbased on secondary data information from different sources.The powerful tremor and aftershocks led to the loss of close to9,000 lives, injured over 23,000 people, fully destroyed over half amillion homes, displaced over 60,000 people. It resulted in totaleconomic losses of approximately US$ 9 billion. It has been foundthat altogether 34 countries physically responded to the disaster,17 of which sent their respective military teams to assist in theimmediate search and rescue phase. Bilateral aid in terms ofrelief items as well as financial aid was received fromapproximately 70 countries worldwide. There is a hugecommitment and disbursement of foreign aid to earthquake’sNepal-2015. However, it has been found that the commitmentsare much higher than disbursement in earthquake- 2015 inNepal. Although, after two years of the earthquakes, only abouthalf the money pledged to Nepal by donors
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