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Articles tagged with #poverty
Prosperous Gandaki is thriving
Rural areas of Nepal’s best performing province are better off than its towns
Why Nepal’s poverty rate is stuck
After a dramatic drop in the past decade, poverty is now static despite remittances and state intervention
Edinburgh store comes full circle to Nepal
In the heart of Edinburgh near the Church of St John the Evangelist is One World Shop, a modest-looking store that sells goods from all over the…
Helping Nepal’s Covid orphans
An estimated 1,200 children who lost their parents to the pandemic struggle to get by
UK aid for Nepali mothers and children
Photo: WWF NEPALAs the Covid crisis pushes millions of Nepalis back below the poverty line affecting their nutritional status, the UK government…
The real cost of Nepal’s second wave
The pandemic makes Nepalis poorer and ruins the economy, but the government has no solutions
Hunger for governance
Nepal has had one emergency heaped on top of another for more than a year now. The Covid-19 emergency, wildfires, and now floods.Political flux…
Nepal’s epidemic of hunger
Malnutrition among Nepali children pre-dates Covid-19, but the pandemic has made it worse
Japan to assist Nepali mothers and children
Photo: WFP NEPALThe Government of Japan is to provide assistance worth $3.47 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Nepal, to…
Nepalis still dying of cold
Dogs huddle for warmth at a fireplace in Janakpur.Just as it has every winter, the cold wave in Nepal’s Tarai has had a devastating impact on…
Pandemic of poverty
Photo: UNICEF NEPALResults from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into…
Pandemic of poverty
Photo: UNICEF NEPALResults from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into…
Stop complaining, start contributing
Whether you see the glass as half empty or half full, it is time to take action and move ahead
Save farms, empower farmers, Nepal citizens’ appeal
A group of civil society activists in Nepal has appealed to minimise the impact on agriculture and farmers during the COVID-19 lockdown.A…
Returnees may be taking coronavirus to rural Nepal
Nepalis crossing the border into the country through the Gauriphanta checkpost in Dhangadi, Far Western Nepal. Photos: DINESH KHABARA week…
No conceivable reason for unwanted pregnancies
Lack of access to and awareness of family planning, the prevalence of unhealthy superstitions and taboos, and the desire to produce a son…
Nepal’s baby export
A major discrepancy between Nepal government and foreign records of the number of Nepali children adopted in North America and Europe has…
What drives wildlife poaching?
Photo : ALEX DUDLEYNepal is the first tiger-range country to double the number of the endangered big cats in its reserves, and has marked five…
Counting what counts in Nepal
The state of the toilet at Kathmandu airport is a better indicator of progress than the Human Development Index
How will Nepal develop in the next decade?
Photo : BIKRAM RAINepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and…
Is the Nepal Tarai prepared for winter?
There is no excuse for Nepalis in this day and age to die from the cold
Nepal rises in Prosperity Index
Photo: BIKRAM RAINepal has risen in this year’s overall prosperity rankings, but is still the 22nd poorest out of the 29 countries in…
Nearly half of Nepali children still malnourished
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
Finnish paper exposé on Nepali restaurants
Photo: NAMRATA SHARMA A Helsingin Sanomat follow-up series this week of a human trafficking ring operated by some Nepali restaurant owners in…