corruption-in-nepal

Higher corruption in high places

Is it too much to hope that continued pressure from the public and scrutiny by the media will demobilise Nepal’s kleptocrats?

Nepal’s crony-Communism exposed

Investigative reporter’s book exposes corruption and cronyism in high places in Nepal

Shristi Karki

Heads Roll

From gold smuggling to land grabs and fake refugee papers, web of scandals ensnares Nepali politicians and businessmen

The Year of Scandals

Speaking at a program on the International Day against Corruption on 9 December in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal admitted that...

Shristi Karki

Anti-corruption vaccine for Nepal

Politics, being the world’s oldest profession, has been honed into a fine art — and nowhere more so than in Nepal. What...

The Ass

Anti-corruption vaccine for Nepal

Politics, being the world’s oldest profession, has been honed into a fine art — and nowhere more so than in Nepal. What...

The Ass

Lies and damned lies

Going by official statistics, Nepal’s economy is doing splendidly. The economy grew at 2.27%, not bad considering that has been battered for...

Aid rarely aids agriculture in Nepal

A combination of rampant corruption, wayward planning, donor interest and an utter disregard for intended beneficiaries has delayed Nepal’s multilateral development projects,...

No shame

Just when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even worse. The idea that ‘corruption’...

A KLEPTO REPUBLIC

All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get...