Why is it so difficult to find skilled people in Nepal?

Kathmandu

XR98MX

2009-11-28T14:35:08Z

2009-11-27T08:01:03Z

One thing (out of <a href="http://www.sodne.com/65/what-s-up-with">many</a>) that confuses me about Nepal is how difficult it is to find skilled workers in Nepal.  At first I thought it was due to small number of good universities in the country and that many skilled workers leave Nepal never to return.  But that too doesn't add up. Many good programmers and artists I know went to just average schools and colleges.  But through their interest in the subject matter and hard work became experts in their fields.  As far as leaving Nepal for greener pastures, I know that's not easy either.  Just look at the long lines of VISA applicants at the US, French, Chinese, Korean consulates and you know that everyone is not getting permission to leave the country. So if it's hard to get a VISA, and there are lack of job options in Nepal, in theory there should be a surplus of talented people in areas such as graphic design, programming, carpenters, painters and so on.  Which is why it doesn't make sense why I haven't been able to find them.  It's frustrated me enough that I created a <a href="http://www.sodne.com/sections/2/categories">separate category</a> on sodne.com for jobs as well as a whole <a href="http://www.milnu.com">new website</a> to help find skilled people in Nepal.  So far I haven't been very successful.  The <a href="http://www.milnu.com/people?skills=painter">painter</a> I'm using sucks, the one I like is always busy.  I've been looking for <a href="http://www.milnu.com/people?skills=rails">Ruby/Rails programmers</a> for a whole year now without success.  I have one good <a href="http://www.milnu.com/people?skills=carpenter">carpenter </a>but he's also always busy.  I haven't had too much luck with finding good <a href="http://www.milnu.com/people?skills=css">graphic designers with CSS skills</a> either. Which is a shame because I'm willing to spend good money to be able to hire skilled people.  And I'm assuming there are many others in the city looking to hire skilled people for a nice salary as well - hello job opportunities.  So what's going on?  Am I not looking in the right places? Where are all the [young] talented Nepalis? 327 27.702871 85.318244