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Investments and Returns for senior citizens

I participated in a program recently and a gentleman of my grandfather’s age delivered some stunning lines in his speech. What is the implication of two colors- crimson red and blue, in the national flag of Nepal? How many triangles are supposed to be there in the sun depicted in the national flag? I really wonder how many Nepali people actually know about the fact. Leaving others aside, different school books have different number of triangles in the sun of the national flag. The correct number of triangles is 12. One can learn this instantly but still very few of us know that and the deliverance of implication of colors requires a sheer experience. Age brings us the experience. Is ageing an economic issue? These days, ageing population has been taken as socio-economic problems by many countries but on the contrary, investment on ageing population is actually worth it. How? A very notable thing is that there are many people who believe that ageing is a challenge in their org...

Economics and Policy in Agricultural Products

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Agricultural products remain as one of the major determinants for the development of developing or the least developed countries in the world. Agriculture is termed to be the subsistence sector in almost all economies of the world- the difference being that developed countries have least dependence on the subsistence sector whereas the least developed countries have the highest dependence. Nepal is one such country where around 65 percent population is directly dependent on agriculture, but if the direct and indirect dependence is seen altogether, the dependent population crosses 80 percent. Where so much of dependent population is concerned, policy definitely has a major role to play and with policy comes the integral economics. One always has to remember that everything is linked to everything in nature. Nature runs in a cycle and the cycle integrates many components like flora and fauna, environment, human beings, etc. When agricultural programs are carried out, no environment...