Yet the net official development assistance constitutes an ever diminishing fraction of gross receipts, due to the fact that a substantial proportion of the development assistance is absorbed by debt service payment. The decline in the country's credit worthiness is a result of its inability to attract adequate levels of investment and aid from global surpluses, which are being diverted to the seemingly more promising countries. This has further compounded the issue. The brain drain and the skills drain from the country to the developed world constitutes a major economic loss. The process and activities which create poverty in Nepal are not consciously willed or desired by the people.
Poverty is created by inherent socio-economic and political structures.
The land distribution pattern in Nepal is skewed, and as a result a large mass of the people do not have access to productive land resources. Nepalese rural poor do not have access to credit and training facilities, which might help them to improve the socio-economic status. They borrow money from village money lenders, such as landlords, who charge exorbitant interest rates. The poor have no opportunity to participate in decision making processes. They are not consulted and cannot participate in planning the developmental patterns which decide the fate of their nation and the fates of the vast majority of the country's population.