important economic and social development aim globally. The Nepal government sees addressing the social and economic challenges … development. There has been limited systematic, policy-oriented empirical research conducted on labor and livelihoods in Nepal … needs expressed by the Nepal government and other stakeholders in the country, this book aims to improve our understanding …

During 2015, and in the span of six-months, Nepal was hit by two major shocks. The first one was the April 2015 …

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 …

This note looks at the services sector and its dual role for Nepal: as a direct source of exports, and as a provider of … the 12 sectors identified in Nepal's National Trade Integration Strategy 2015 (NTIS 2015) are services-related. This note … assesses Nepal's trade potential in services, and identifies actionable policy measures that are needed for Nepal to achieve …

led to, second unbundling of globalization in the 1990s and 2000s (Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez 2015). Nepal's National … note explores some stylized facts about Nepal's integration in GVCs and identifies policy recommendations in cross … beside the introduction. The second section presents five stylized facts about Nepal's exports that are related to GVC …

In 2010 or 2011, Nepal set up a cash incentive scheme for exporters aimed at reducing its trade deficit and … Practice has been partnering with the Government of Nepal to assess the impact of the cash incentive program on export growth …

As a small, landlocked economy, Nepal's development prospects are closely tied to its ability to increase integration … in the regional and global marketplace. Despite significant changes in Nepal's trade sector over the past decade, the … country's export performance has remained poor, with exports growing at a much slower pace than imports. Nepal's external …

Nepal's trade balance in goods and services has been in deficit for many years. The large deficit has not resulted in a … determinants? What are the implications of high remittances for the competitiveness in the short and long-run? How can Nepal … maximize the positive impact of remittances in the economy? The authors assess the impact of remittances on Nepal's real …

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 …