Inconvenient truths
Instead of making things easy for its citizens, the Nepali state excels at putting up obstacles every step of the way
bureaucracy
Literally, out of service
An exhausting hour-long wait in line at the Kathmandu District Administration Office finally ends with a rude and unhelpful civil servant at...
Including the excluded in the bureaucracy
Let’s face it, Nepal’s civil service is not held in very high regard by Nepalis themselves. But in the past seven years after the...
Nepal's uncivil servants
Making the bureaucracy more efficient faces bureaucratic hurdles
“Investing in Nepal is risk free”
Capacity and WillpowerThere are immense opportunities waiting for investment to uplift the living standard of 30 million honest and hardworking people. The...
Maze
Maze: /meɪz/ (noun) a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way.The government...
Nepal has to curb corruption before wooing investors
After adopting a liberal free-market policy, passing the first Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Act in 1992, despite the end of the conflict,...
Overseas Nepalis are not impressed
https://youtu.be/NR6mf_rrRb0Learning from the success of overseas Chinese and Indians investing in their homeland, the Nepal government hurriedly passed two foreign investment related...
A roller coaster ride
Nepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies and Least Developed...
Invest in investment
Let us just say, for the sake of argument, that Nepal has now untangled its politics, formed a Constitution, the war is...
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