At one extreme are large, often primate cities such as Kathmandu, Lhasa, or Dehradun that are growing at rates that double the population of these cities every 10 to 15 years or so and, at the other extreme, are the vast rural areas which suffer from the paucity of basic services, where outmigration has evolved as a survival strategy, and their niche-based comparative advantages cannot be harnessed because the conditions for doing so in terms of accessibility, services, and other forms of institutional support are absent. Issues in Mountain Development is a series released from time to time to brief planners, development workers, researchers and donors on recent trends, findings, and issues affecting mountain development. The papers in this series can be quoted with due acknowledgments.
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