Disparities between Development Regions and District Development Committees in Nepal

摘要

Nepal is in a transitional process nowadays. The country is about to be reorganized in different sub-national levels of government. According to our calculations, important disparities exist both among development regions and among district development committees (DDC) in terms of contribution to the government revenue and expenditures. At this moment, Nepal is officially divided into five development regions, 14 administrative zones and 75 districts development committees (DDC) themselves subdivided into local governments, which are the municipalities and the village development committees (GURUNG H., Nepal: Atlas and statistics, 2006). This research note aims to define what the intrinsic ability of the development regions and the DDC's to generate revenue is. Could they have sufficient resources to support their own expenditures thanks to the revenue that they can generate?