Effectiveness of Security-Development Linkage: A Case Study of Bara Industrial Corridor, Nepal
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Abstract
This thesis is a descriptive research investigates the link between security and development. It
examines how this security-development linkage has influenced the interrelated significance
of security and development.
The thesis questions three main areas of interest related to security and development focusing
on interdependence and analyses of present priority as an agenda; the relationship of policy
implementation and institutional capabilities; and the analysis of role of intervening factors
and external environment on ‘Security-development Linkage’ as an output.
The thesis argues that the linkage between security and development is under-theorized in
Nepalese context, and the originality of this research is to investigate the link between
security policy implementation and its effect on development based on an analysis of
literature on principal agent theory, security-development nexus and implementation theory
approaches. Further, the case study of Bara Industrial Corridor highlights the link between
security and development is depend on a vision of security policy linked to the state’s
security agencies and its governance capacity.