ABSTRACT
This chapter critically establishes links between aid agencies’ poverty responses, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism in Nepal. In doing so, it begins with a brief historical review of the aid agencies in Nepal and critically examines their present statuses. Then, in the following section, it explores the ways aid agencies are neocolonial and neoliberal actors dancing with poverty more rhetorically than dealing with it in Nepal in reality. And finally, the chapter concludes by suggesting why there is a need to move beyond the grand illusion of aid-aided poverty reduction responses to home-grown poverty discourse in Nepal.
