poverty

Prosperous Gandaki is thriving

Rural areas of Nepal’s best performing province are better off than its towns

Why Nepal’s poverty rate is stuck

After a dramatic drop in the past decade, poverty is now static despite remittances and state intervention

Edinburgh store comes full circle to Nepal

In the heart of Edinburgh near the Church of St John the Evangelist is One World Shop, a modest-looking store that sells goods from all over the...

Helping Nepal’s Covid orphans

An estimated 1,200 children who lost their parents to the pandemic struggle to get by

UK aid for Nepali mothers and children

As the Covid crisis pushes millions of Nepalis back below the poverty line affecting their nutritional status, the UK government is funding supplemental food...

The real cost of Nepal’s second wave

The pandemic makes Nepalis poorer and ruins the economy, but the government has no solutions

Hunger for governance

Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux in...

Nepal’s epidemic of hunger

Malnutrition among Nepali children pre-dates Covid-19, but the pandemic has made it worse

Japan to assist Nepali mothers and children

The Government of Japan is to provide assistance worth $3.47 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Nepal, to support families worst-hit...

Nepalis still dying of cold

Just as it has every winter, the cold wave in Nepal’s Tarai has had a devastating impact on the livelihood of its...