Rural areas of Nepal’s best performing province are better off than its towns
The state of the toilet at Kathmandu airport is a better indicator of progress than the Human Development Index
For Nepalis who migrated to New South Wales, it must feel like going from the frying pan into the fire
At the cusp of a new year and a new decade, Nepalis must take stock of promises not kept and the opportunities lost to take the country forward…
Nepal has risen in this year’s overall prosperity rankings, but is still the 22nd poorest out of the 29 countries in Asia-Pacific.The…
As a ceremonial head of state, President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s weeklong visit to China that began on Wednesday is largely symbolic. In the…
Capacity and WillpowerThere are immense opportunities waiting for investment to uplift the living standard of 30 million honest and hardworking…
On Thursday, a worker puts up the registration desk as part of preparations for the Investment Summit at Hotel Soaltee, Kathmandu. Photos:…
Learning from the success of overseas Chinese and Indians investing in their homeland, the Nepal government hurriedly passed two foreign…
Nepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies and Least…
Let us just say, for the sake of argument, that Nepal has now untangled its politics, formed a Constitution, the war is over and there is…
Whatever the political ambitions of the Maoist leaders, their justification for taking up arms was the inequality historically embedded in…
Prime Minister Oli said last week that his government laid the foundation for prosperity in Nepal during its first year in power. This claim has…
Nepal is one of the top 20 countries in the world with fastest rising prosperity over the last 10 years, a trend to be celebrated by Nepal’s…
The appointment by the Communist government of respected economist Yuba Raj Khatiwada (pictured above) as Finance Minister earlier this year was…
In a recent meeting with editors of Nepal’s mainstream media, six months after assuming office, Prime Minister K P Oli was grilled about fears…
Across the world, from the Philippines to the United States, and in Central European countries like Hungary and Poland, we have seen worrying…
