The main challenge remains the multiplication of workable policies on a wide scale. There is no shortage of policies that are continuing but which have had little positive impact. Many anti-poverty policies that had very loosely defined target groups and areas and attempted to deal with many problems have not much to show except their expenses. Similarly, many non-specific, resource conservation activities are equally discouraging. Success and failure are relative concepts in terms of time, space, and people.
Some activities work well in one place but are a miserable failure in another.
It is the wisdom behind the experience of both successful and unsuccessful policies that is the foundation of progress and is also the basis for mountain development. This present newsletter is an effort to focus on policies. Policies, like any production system, also have a set of inputs and some expected outputs. An adequate proportion of right factors is needed to get good quality outputs. The policy system is not much different.