Own Goal
After deciding that Nepal meets criteria for democracy, transparency and governance, a donor government wants to give the country $500 million to...
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A millennium challenge
Legend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was that our...
How will Nepal develop in the next decade?
Nepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and education in...
“Investing in Nepal is risk free”
Capacity and WillpowerThere are immense opportunities waiting for investment to uplift the living standard of 30 million honest and hardworking people. The...
Nepal has to curb corruption before wooing investors
After adopting a liberal free-market policy, passing the first Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Act in 1992, despite the end of the conflict,...
Overseas Nepalis are not impressed
https://youtu.be/NR6mf_rrRb0Learning from the success of overseas Chinese and Indians investing in their homeland, the Nepal government hurriedly passed two foreign investment related...
A roller coaster ride
Nepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies and Least Developed...
Invest in investment
Let us just say, for the sake of argument, that Nepal has now untangled its politics, formed a Constitution, the war is...
Transparently corrupt
Not everything happening in Nepal is bad. If you just looked at the glass as half full, the news that Nepal has...
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