Tag: #employment
Articles tagged with #employment
Weaving dreams for women
Activist turned entrepreneur finds economic independence and empowers other women
Putting Nepal on the right track
A train network will generate jobs in construction and operation, bring efficiency and connectivity
No country for young men
Photo: SHANKAR DAHALNepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) issued more than 240,000 labour permits for migrant workers in 2021, even as…
Nepalis abused by Nepalis in Luxembourg
Scars of injuries sustained by Shyam in his scalp when his Nepali employer in a restaurant in Luxembourg allegedly beat him with a tandoor…
Few jobs created by Nepal employment drive
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEAlmost exactly two years ago, Prime Minister Oli launched an ambitious employment creation scheme, which was widely…
The theory and practice of zero-cost migration
Nepali Times Archives/Om Astha RaiNepal has set a positive image in the region for adopting a ‘employer pays’ principle that removes the cost…
Nepali workers returning to India
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThree months after nearly 400,000 Nepali workers returned from India following the Covid-19 lockdown, many are now headed back…
Economic cost of 5 months of Nepal lockdown
Photo: AJAYA UPADHAYAYAAs serious as the rapid spread in Nepal of the novel coronavirus looks, even more frightening is what the lockdown meant…
Coronavirus Nepal Lockdown Month 2
After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace
Back to the future of farming
Photo: LISA CHOEGYALThe COVID-19 lockdown by the government is an effort at ‘primary protection’, and builds on the experience of how other…
Irresistible forces: wage differentials and demographic trends
Photo: OM ASTHA RAIIn many parts of the world the ratio of the working age group to the elderly population is on a decline. By 2050, OECD…
Mixed picture for Nepal’s children
Nepal has made progress in most areas related to children, like health, education, street children welfare, but challenges remain in nutrition,…
Greens from Nepal in Qatar’s desert
Nepal is not just exporting manpower to Qatar now, but also veggies
Can't get no satisfaction
On the face of it, when 41% of Nepalis in a public opinion poll say the country is headed in the right direction it could be taken as a decent…
Roadblocks
Photo: YUVARAJ SHRESTHAAt a ministerial review meeting last month, Prime Minister K P Oli warned bureaucrats he would not take “If’s and but’s”…
Social insecurity
Prime Minister K P Oli’s media blitz this week taking full credit for a social security scheme for private sector employees was an attempt to…
DOUBLESPEAK
Krishna PaudelEven if it has a comfortable majority in Parliament, no one should envy the current Communist rulers of Nepal. Prime Minister K P…