LDC graduation is a stepping stone for Nepal’s development, but a better investment climate would help
Geopolitical sensitivities of its giant neighbours block much-needed energy projects
Nepal's investment climate is worsened by political instability, too few laws, and too much red tape
Ahead of the Nepal Investment Summit, some new ideas to attract FDI
The country’s coffers are full, but the economy is anemic because of poor investment climate
Almost two decades have passed since the Income Tax Act came into effect in Nepal. But complications abound for taxpayers, even if they have…
Aside from second-guessing what will happen in the restored Parliament on Sunday, the major past-time of urban Nepalis these days is to…
Photo: MANISH PAUDELNepal has only slightly progressed in the annual overall prosperity rankings this year, but rose 15 steps over the last…
Photo: AJAYA UPADHAYAYAAs serious as the rapid spread in Nepal of the novel coronavirus looks, even more frightening is what the lockdown meant…
The state of the toilet at Kathmandu airport is a better indicator of progress than the Human Development Index
Dil Bahadur Gurung is glad he turned down an offer to go abroad to start his own handicraft business
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
Ten years ago, at the beginning of the last decade, Nepalis looked forward with optimism to a country with greater connectivity — at least a…
Ram Sharan Mahat, former foreign and finance minister of the Nepali Congress, has published an important book that serves as an explainer and…
Photo: IKRISHNA PAUDELYogesh Bhattarai is Nepal’s 37th Tourism Minister in 41 years. He has taken the place of Rabindra Adhikari, who was killed…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIJust when we thought everything necessary had been said about Nepal’s corrosive corruption, it seems to be even…
All of us witness examples of Nepal’s corruption pandemic every day in every sphere of life: from slipping a few to get a driving license to…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIThe spate of investment treaty arbitrations that have inundated developing countries in recent times has now…
Capacity and WillpowerThere are immense opportunities waiting for investment to uplift the living standard of 30 million honest and hardworking…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIMaze: /meɪz/ (noun) a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way.The…
On Thursday, a worker puts up the registration desk as part of preparations for the Investment Summit at Hotel Soaltee, Kathmandu. Photos:…
https://youtu.be/NR6mf_rrRb0Learning from the success of overseas Chinese and Indians investing in their homeland, the Nepal government…
Photo: BIKRAM RAINepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies…
GRAZIE: Annamaria Forgione (far left) with her staff when Fire and Ice first opened in 1995 in Thamel, and this week serving the popular Pizza…
