Purpose - The main purpose of this article is to understand the motivations for Bhutanese students to study hospitality and tourism courses. The second objective is to analyse what countries are the preferred destinations for study abroad and visitation for students. This includes focussing on...

Between 2001 and 2019, Bhutan made significant economic progress with an average annual growth rate of 7 percent. This progress was accompanied by significant improvements in monetary and nonmonetary standards of living. However, recent shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic and global macroeconomic...

We use primary data to examine the potential role of wild foods in alleviating food insecurity among rural farmers in Bhutan during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that food-insecure households are more likely to collect wild foods, suggesting that food-insecure households are consuming wild...

This paper uses two years of agriculture census data to build a panel dataset that consists of all the small towns in Bhutan. This dataset is used to estimate the impact of irrigation gaps and drought on the yields of paddy, maize, and other crops. The paper compares the estimated impacts from a...

We use primary data to examine the potential role of wild foods in alleviating food insecurity among rural farmers in Bhutan during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that food-insecure households are more likely to collect wild foods, suggesting that food-insecure households are consuming wild...

We use primary data to examine the potential role of wild foods in alleviating food insecurity among rural farmers in Bhutan during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that food-insecure households are more likely to collect wild foods, suggesting that food-insecure households are consuming wild...

The Kingdom of Bhutan aspires to move to 100 percent organic agriculture and improve self-sufficiency in its most important cereal crop, rice. Unfortunately, simulations conducted by Feuerbacher et al. (2018) suggest that a full conversion to organic agriculture as currently practiced in Bhutan...

This paper analyzes the distributional impact of the tax-benefit system in Bhutan. It makes two main contributions: first, this is the first substantive study of this kind in Bhutan, and second, due to limited information on incomes in the household survey, a consumption-based model is combined...

Is there such a thing as a “Buddhist” sense of corporate ethics? In this article, the authors propose a contribution to that question by drawing on their personal experience managing or supporting the development of an innovative new business venture in Bhutan, a small and primarily Buddhist...

The pandemic has had a substantial impact on the economy, straining pre-pandemic gains in income and poverty reduction. The wide-ranging policy measures, including containment protocols, rapid vaccination and booster campaigns, direct income support, and policy support for borrowers and...

This report is the outcome of a costing study undertaken to obtain information about the costs of delivering health services at different administrative health care levels in Bhutan, to: Inform the Ministry of Health about the costs of delivering various types of services at different levels; --...

Despite Bhutan's distinctive geographical and economic challenges, Bhutan has maintained a relatively high average real GDP growth rate of 8.8 percent over FY00-01-FY09-10, which is greater than the average of South Asian countries as well as low and middle-income economies. Bhutan's mountainous...

Bhutan's economy has recovered from the series of shocks resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After experiencing contractions of 2.5 percent and 3.3 percent in FY19/20 and FY20/21, respectively, the economy exhibited signs of recovery in subsequent years. As...

Samuel Butler once wrote, “True greatness wears an invisible cloak, under the cover of which it goes in and out among men without being suspected. We live in an age of stark contradictions. The world enjoys technologies of unimaginable sophistication; yet has at least one billion people...

A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid...

Retaining trained teachers is an issue for almost every country despite its socioeconomic differences. A small developing country, Bhutan is facing its share of the same problem. Teachers leaving the profession on a voluntary basis have been increasing year by year. It became more serious in...

Traditional beliefs and cultural myths play a very important role in conserving the environment in Bhutan. However, these beliefs and myths are passed from generation to generation via oral transmission and people are unaware of it. Also, there is less written information in the country....

This guidebook was collaboratively written by the first class of students to enter into the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law (JSW Law), Bhutan’s first and only law school. It was originally conceived as a classroom assignment in a course on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). In that...

In this article, I describe, with the help of ethnographic vignettes, the lives and experiences of the Indian migrant labourers working in the construction sector in Bhutan. In so doing, I show how Bhutan has become a ‘place of hope’ for the construction workers, offering them ample reasons...

This Study is carried out in order to analyse the determinants of livelihood diversification of the inhabitants and the different aspects of socio- economic life of the people living in villages along the Indo-Bhutan border of Udalguri district so that it can come up with definite strategies to...

This article presents the findings of the first empirical research into self-represented defendants in criminal trials in Bhutan, including interviews with 16 judges from 14 courts in Bhutan, and analysis of judicial forms relating to the exercise or waiver of the right to counsel in 92 criminal...

This paper uses two years of agriculture census data to build a panel dataset that consists of all the small towns in Bhutan. This dataset is used to estimate the impact of irrigation gaps and drought on the yields of paddy, maize, and other crops. The paper compares the estimated impacts from a...