The most important trade route in East Nepal passes along the upper reaches of the Tamur Valley. In this valley the village of Walongchung is situated in the region of Walongchung Gola at an attitude of about 12.000 ft. The paper discusses the different trading patterns among the Walongchung...

Rotating savings and credit associations (RoSCAs) are, next to moneylenders, the most prevalent type of informal finance around the world. In 1988, Seibel & Shrestha traced the evolution of the dhikuti, as RoSCAs are called in Nepal, and published the results under the title Dhikuti: The Small...

During the past, the evaluation of the chances of economic transformation and development of Eastern Europe was largely shaped by the view on the modernization and organizational restructuring of large enterprises/combines. Various scholars were sceptical how far these could contribute to a...