Nepal is a crappy place. The imprison and torture those of dissenting religious views.
I can't imagine hardly anyone else in the world doing a worse job than has been done, but we are talking about the UN, aren't we?
Nice scenery, but you're right. Very crappy (I got food poisoning in Kathmandu).
The Rana royals and their family are thieves. Aid money is stolen, trekking concessions have kickbacks, etc.
Outside pockets of Kathmandu and Solo-Khumbu, the Nepalese live in near-serfdom conditions.