As Nepal pushes toward lower middle-income status and a new middle class emerges, a fundamental policy challenge remains unresolved: how to expand economic opportunity while ensuring a robust and inclusive system of social protection.
A common image of the South Asian Subcontinent is that it is the least integrated part of the world.
The most expansive budget in Nepali history is simultaneously steeped in austerity, as Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle juggles the RSP’s expansionist, high-tech promises with the rigid financial discipline demanded by international monitors.
Nepal’s digital transformation, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has created significant opportunities for an inclusive digital economy, but realizing its full potential requires stronger implementation, innovation, regulation, and digital literacy to ensure that no one is left behind.
Kathmandu’s future depends not only on adopting electric vehicles, but on reclaiming its streets for walking, cycling, and reliable public transport to build a cleaner and more livable city.
Introduction Nepal cultivates many high-value, unique ecological products. Large cardamom, cultivated in the eastern hills of Taplejung and Ilam, accounts for 55–68% of global large-cardamom output. Ilam orthodox tea shares the same Himalayan ridgeline, altitude, and Camellia sinensis varietals as Darjeeling. Timur pepper (Zanthoxylum armatum) is wild-harvested from the Himalayan foothills and is phytochemically distinct […]