The global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic imposed both a supply and a demand shock on Nepal's economy, which adversely … affected growth. The global crisis induced by the pandemic initially impacted Nepal through the tourism sector, with arrivals … to tourism. On March 21, the Government of Nepal announced a nationwide lockdown, which affected industrial and …

Nepal made significant progress on poverty and shared prosperity over the period 1996-2010, despite low domestic growth … remained an enduring feature of the welfare narrative in Nepal. The past decade, from 2010 to 2020, has been characterized by a … Nepal. These shocks were also correlated with declines in economic growth. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, which started …

Nepal is emerging from a series of crippling shocks. Barely recovered from the devastation and loss wreaked by the … underpinnings of the demand for inclusion that has so fundamentally shaped Nepal's contemporary socio-political landscape. Finally …

The purpose of this report is to identify how to maximize finance available to Nepal in the electricity sector. This …

This Selected Issues paper on Nepal measures the extent to which Nepal's households change their expenditure patterns … and labor supply in response to remittances, using the Nepal Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey-2016 and employing a … at the macro and household levels, makes Nepal highly vulnerable to shifts that could diminish remittance inflows. The …

Asia. The paper shows that the considerable co-movement in headline inflation rates between India and Nepal is driven … driving non-food inflation in Nepal appears limited. The implication is that Nepal should rely on domestic monetary policy … controlling core inflation. Thus, domestic monetary policy needs to be calibrated to domestic inflationary pressures-Nepal cannot …