Selected Publications

Book, monograph, book chapter, working paper, discussion paper and research paper

• AIT Alumni 1961-1987 Tracer Study, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 1990, jointly with Karl E. Weber and Jagannath Adhikari.


• Tracer Study Design: A Concept Paper, Division of Human Settlements Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 1991, (AIT Research Report, 247), jointly with Karl E. Weber.


• Research and Survey Format Design: An Introduction, Division of Human Settlements Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand 1992, ("Studies on Human Settlements Development in Asia", HSD Reference Materials, 23), Jointly with Karl E. Weber.


• Employment Creation and Income Generation in Asian Developing Countries : Review of Policies, Programs and Effects, Human Settlements Development Programme, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, (“Studies on Planning Earn a Living in Rural Regions", HSD Working Paper 59), 1996.


• Employment Creation and Income Generation as the Strategy for Poverty Alleviation in Rural Regions: Policy Implications for Nepal, Human Settlements Development Programme, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. ("Studies on Planning Earn a Living in Rural Regions", HSD Working Paper 60), 1996.


• Employment Creation and Income Generation in Rural Regions: People, Places, Activities and Interventions in Nepal, Centre for Rural and Urban Studies and Transfiguration (CRUST), Lekhnath. ("Studies on Planning Earn a Living in Rural Regions"), 1998.


• Geo-spatial concern to poverty eradication and sustainable development: Introduction, Discussion Paper, Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 2003.


• “Tourism and Community Development Cases in Nepal: A Sustainable Development Deception or the Sustainable Alternative Approach?” in Tourism and Community Development: Asian Practices, the World Tourism Organization, 2008, pp.237-256.


• “Creating Development Habit and Cultivating Development Culture among Rural Communities for Overcoming the Vicious Cycle of Poverty and Underdevelopment in Nepal – The Swabalamban Approach” in Community Development: Local and Global Challenges, Lucerne School of Social Work, Switzerland, 2008.


• Revitalization of the Regional and Spatial Development Perspective, School of Social and Environmental Development, National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand, 2012.

Journal article and other published papers

• "Impact of migration on rural employment and earnings in the western development region of Nepal" in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 5(4), 1996, pp.417-448.


• "An analysis of agricultural production in a semi-subsistence economy" in Outlook in Agriculture, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1996, pp.171-178.


• “Urban migration and urbanization in Nepal” Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 23, No.1, 2008, pp.79-104.


• “State welfarism and social welfare in Asia”, Journal of Arts and Humanities (JAH), 2(2), 2013, pp. 64-78.


• “The factors affecting the decision-making role of women in household management in Nepal”, NIDA Development Journal, Vol.53 No. 2/2556 (April-June 2013) (with Ajay Thapa).


• “Development innovations of political and community leaders”, Journal of Development and Social Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2014.


• “Entrepreneurship of education obstructed women”, Journal of Development and Social Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2014 (with Radha Parajuli).


• “Determinants of the use of modern contraceptives by women in Nepal”, NIDA Development Journal, Vol.52 No. 2 (April-June 2014) (with Ajay Thapa and Pradeep Upaddhyaya).


• “Social Responsibility: Can it Contribute for Sustainable Welfarism?” Journal of Development and Social Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2017.