3+ week, 2+ day ago   (794+ words) Nepal has roughly $53 billion sitting in bank deposits. Around $14 billion enters the country each year through remittances. Its technology sector is now estimated to export more than $1 billion in services. Yet, promising Nepali enterprises still struggle to find the capital,…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (904+ words) On International Youth Day, Nepal needs more than another celebration of young people’s energy. It needs a practical question: Now that young citizens have altered the country’s politics, can we translate that renewal into wider economic opportunity and institutions that…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (828+ words) A consumer who spent just Rs250 at a grocery store in Kanchanpur has won the government’s Rs1 million bumper prize under its new taxpayer incentive lottery programme, with the first winners announced on Friday. The winner bought the goods from Shiva Krishna…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (344+ words) A consumer who bought goods worth just Rs250 from a grocery store in Kanchanpur has won a Rs1 million bumper prize under the government’s tax incentive lottery programme aimed at encouraging consumers to demand bills. The winner purchased the goods from Shiva…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (775+ words) The Kathmandu Post Methodological mess in development research This methodological weakness of Nepal’s development research has been documented for decades. In the 1980s, researchers found that estimates of Nepali firewood use varied so wildly between studies that the numbers were simply…...