Business of business

In Nepal, inclusion of business actors has advantages and disadvantages both. On the one hand, their closeness to the elite enables them to directly influence decision-makers at the top level. On the other, the relationship of business people with their own workers through unions is at the core of some of the uprisings in Nepal that are also derailing the pro-peace engagement of the corporate sector. Engagements of business actors in Nepal are analysed from five different angles: political, economic, philanthropic, humanitarian and social engagement. Most of the non-commercial engagement of corporations are either in forms of religious donations or philanthropy. Hence, such investments have not been sector-specific. The corporations give donations mostly according to where they think appropriate. By this, on one hand, priorities are misplaced. The impacts of such activities are not profound because of being unplanned, disconnected and scattered on different issues...

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