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Elephants Can't Jump
Ensuring brand initiatives work in practice as well as in theory. To have marketplace impact, we believe every research assignment should consist of three elements consumer exploration or validation, within a competitive context, generating commercial outputs.
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An Introduction to Nepal
Nepal is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, and is the world's youngest republic. It was ruled by kings from 1768 until 2008, when a decade-long civil war by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and a massacre of the majority of the ruling house combined to put an end to the monarchy. A federal democratic republic was established on May 28, 2008 and the first President, Dr Ram Baran Yadav, was sworn in on 23 July of that year. See full country profile.Latest Research News from Central Asia
GOVERNMENT: Federal democratic republic
AREA: 147,181sq. km
POPULATION: 28,563,377 (July 2009 est.)
MAJOR LANGUAGE: Maithili, Nepal Bhasa, Bhojpuri, Tharu, Gurung, Tamang, Magar, Awadhi, Sherpa, Kiranti plus a further 100 different indigenous languages.
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Nepal is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, and is the world's youngest republic. It was ruled by kings from 1768 until 2008, when a decade-long civil war by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and a massacre of the majority of the ruling house combined to put an end to the monarchy. A federal democratic republic was established on May 28, 2008 and the first President, Dr Ram Baran Yadav, was sworn in on 23 July of that year.
Nepal is perhaps most famous for its largest resident, Mount Everest, which sits in the country's mountainous north. In fact, it is home to eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, and is also geographically diverse - the south of the country is humid and fertile, and therefore heavily urbanised. It is the birthplace of Buddhism, and Nepal is the only country in the world whose flag is not a rectangle, rather combining two pennants from different branches of previous rulers, the Rana Dynasty.
GDP: $31.09 billion
Religions Hinduism 80.6%; Buddhism 10.7%; Islam 4.2%; Mundhum 3.6%; Christianity 0.5%; Other 0.4%
Currency: Rupee (NPR) (1NPR = 0.009 EUR)
Telephone Code: +977
Research Industry
Nepal has no MR association and no locally-based research providers as far as we know: but it is covered by regional firms including recently launched AZ Research Partners.According to the CIA World Factbook: Nepal exported $USD 868 million worth of goods in 2008, not including unrecorded border trade with India. Exports comprised clothing, carpets, leather goods, jute goods, pulses and grain, and went principally to India, the USA, and Germany. Imports in the same year were worth $USD 3.229 billion, consisting of petroleum products, machinery and equipment and electrical goods, mostly from India, China and Japan.
Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world with almost one-third of its population living below the poverty line. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, providing a livelihood for three quarters of the population and accounting for 38% of GDP. Bumper crops, better security, improved transportation, and increased tourism pushed growth past 5% in 2008, after it had hovered around 2.6% - barely above the rate of population growth - for the previous three years.
Nepal has considerable potential for hydropower and tourism, areas of recent foreign investment interest. Prospects for foreign trade or investment in other sectors will remain doubtful, however, because of the small size of the economy, its technological backwardness, its remoteness and landlocked geographic location, its civil strife and labour unrest, and its susceptibility to natural disaster.
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