Asia Insights : Bhutan
Facts
and background
Population : 896.000
(2004)
Surface area : 47.000 sq. km.
Population per sq. km : 19
Population growth : 2.5 % (2004)
Life expectancy : 63,5 (2004)
Population below national poverty line :
GNI per capita : 760 US$ (2004)
GDP : 673,2 US$ millions (2004)
Sources:
World
Development Indicators Database
CIA.
The World Factbook
Head of State:
King Jigma Singya Wangchuck
Prime Minister: Lyonpo Sangay
Ngedup
Source:
Bhutan Portal
Politics and
society
Political
Resources in the Net
Government sites
Anti-Corruption
Commission
Bhutan
Portal
Official Web Portal
Ministry
of Home and Cultural Affairs
Website with some documentation
(eg: organization charts, current Dzongkhag and Gewog chatrim [rules]);
forthcoming detailed housing and population results will be presented
in tabulated form on this site later in 2006. Also outlines some
functions and policies for the Ministry's four departments (civil
and registration, culture, immigration, and local governance.
National
Assembly of Bhutan
Draft
constitution 2005
Elections
Electionworld:
Bhutan
News
Bhutan
News Online
Independent Online News Magazine
Kuensel
Online
News from foreign sources
BBC.
South Asia
CNN.
International edition. Asia
Yahoo!
News (incl. AP, Reuters)
Research Institutions
and Networks
Centre
for Bhutan Studies, Bhutan
Research institute for inter-disciplinary studies on Bhutan The
Centre for Bhutan Studies is an autonomous research institute that
promotes research and scholarship on Bhutan. Among its publications,
the Centre publishes the bi-annual Journal of Bhutan Studies and
a monogram series related to Bhutan studies. Past copies of the
Journal and the full text of other publications are available to
download from the website.
Southasia
Matters - yahoo.group
Supplied note: "Some
of us (esp. based in Southasia) felt the need of having an e-list
and an open platform to discuss issues of significance, activism,
development work and share conference notices, research findings,
teaching materials, and highlight books and book reviews on South
Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and
the Maldives) hence Southasia_matters was founded [on 5 April 2006
- ed.]. Please join...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southasia_matters/
Development organisations
/ agencies
World
Bank. Bhutan homepage
IMF
Country Information
Asian
Development Bank. Bhutan homepage
ReliefWeb
Other resources
DrukNet
Bhutan's Internet Service
Provider
Bhutan
The World-Wide Web Virtual
Library
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