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 …

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 …

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 …

. Two illustrative scenarios are examined. The first scenario examines a complete tariff elimination among the Bhutan-Bangladesh-India-Nepal …