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Not poor, but not rich
LDC graduation is a stepping stone for Nepal’s development, but a better investment climate would help
Nepal’s China-India love-triangle impacts investment
Geopolitical sensitivities of its giant neighbours block much-needed energy projects
Why invest in Nepal?
Nepal's investment climate is worsened by political instability, too few laws, and too much red tape
Nepal looks at alternative investments
Ahead of the Nepal Investment Summit, some new ideas to attract FDI
Poor cash-rich Nepal
The country’s coffers are full, but the economy is anemic because of poor investment climate
Taxing process of fund reclaiming in Nepal
Almost two decades have passed since the Income Tax Act came into effect in Nepal. But complications abound for taxpayers, even if they have…
Despite politics, Nepal’s stock market is bullish
Aside from second-guessing what will happen in the restored Parliament on Sunday, the major past-time of urban Nepalis these days is to…
Nepal stalls in Prosperity Index
Photo: MANISH PAUDELNepal has only slightly progressed in the annual overall prosperity rankings this year, but rose 15 steps over the last…
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…
Counting what counts in Nepal
The state of the toilet at Kathmandu airport is a better indicator of progress than the Human Development Index
Staying in Nepal to create jobs
Dil Bahadur Gurung is glad he turned down an offer to go abroad to start his own handicraft business
A millennium challenge
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
Nepal in 2030
Ten years ago, at the beginning of the last decade, Nepalis looked forward with optimism to a country with greater connectivity — at least a…
History and context from Mahat
Ram Sharan Mahat, former foreign and finance minister of the Nepali Congress, has published an important book that serves as an explainer and…
"Unusual appointment … extraordinary tasks"
Photo: IKRISHNA PAUDELYogesh Bhattarai is Nepal’s 37th Tourism Minister in 41 years. He has taken the place of Rabindra Adhikari, who was killed…
No shame
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIJust when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even…
A KLEPTO REPUBLIC
All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get a driving license to…
Nepal has strong case on Ncell arbitration
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIThe spate of investment treaty arbitrations that have inundated developing countries in recent times has now…
“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…
Maze
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIMaze: /meɪz/ (noun) a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way.The…
Nepal has to curb corruption before wooing investors
On Thursday, a worker puts up the registration desk as part of preparations for the Investment Summit at Hotel Soaltee, Kathmandu. Photos:…
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…
A roller coaster ride
Photo: BIKRAM RAINepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies…
Napoli Nepali
GRAZIE: Annamaria Forgione (far left) with her staff when Fire and Ice first opened in 1995 in Thamel, and this week serving the popular Pizza…