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 …

growth in Nepal. Tepid growth over the past decade, the slowest in the region, has resulted in few jobs being created … notes combine the following elements: (i) existing analysis on Nepal's competitiveness from different angles (including …; (iii) new analysis for Nepal, applying cutting-edge methods on a wide set of databases; and (iv) field-level interviews …

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 …

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's recent transition to a federal state structure provides a historic juncture to realize the role that social …