and Expatriate Assisted Community Development as a Possibility in Kirtipur by the Kirtipur Programme. The author seeks to demonstrate the importance of addressing the full panoply of human factors that condition every foreign aid endeavor in Nepal. The article examines a number of publications on development projects done in Newar communities in the Kathmandu valley to reflect on these issues and to comment specifically on their content. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-04)