Battle for mayorship: Who should win?
IN SEPTEMBER 2021,A10 YEAR BOY DIED after falling into an open sewer at Kapan, Budhanilkantha. Nobody was held accountable. With the pandemic, businesses had to …
Public transport system financing around the world: Lessons for Nepal
NEPAL IS INCREASINGLY being exposed to the malign forces of bad public transport systems, particularly cities. Take its capital Kathmandu, for instance. Its population has …
Disasters loom large in Nepal as the planet overheats. Yet it cares less?
If the mounting scientific evidence and recent surge in climate events worldwide are precursor to anything, it has to be the fact that more pronounced …
What does the new budget have for Nepal's agriculture sector?
Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada unveiled budget plans for the upcoming fiscal year last Thursday. The new budget has some new provisions for the agriculture sector …
Dissecting fuel price and why Nepal should disrupt its fuel dependency?
Fuel price is one of the principal drivers of inflation that can ramp up living and business costs. This is because economies run on fuel. …
Nepal’s high inflation, high borrowing cost and pay gap trap
Nepals economy has been crawling as one of the least developed in the world for over decades now. That boils down to poor living standards …
This photo album was just meant to be a photo feature with collection of some, presumably, random works of Manish Misra its creator. But I …
We are practicing bad, ill-informed and sub-optimal macroeconomics
Dr Surya Raj Acharya is a staunch advocate of infrastructure investments to stimulate Nepals economy to the next level. He stresses that some of those …
How Kathmandu’s lethal pollution is its worst economic adversary?
Cities on lockdown due to corona pandemic has provided a momentarily respite with improved air quality to many cities across the world including the ailing …
In 2017, I made a trip with my family to Chitwan to attend a close friends sons paasni, a Nepali ceremony where a six-month child …
‘GDP' & 'Development’ Lessons for Nepal
The constraints of GDP are well known bynow. We know the discourse and the paradigm shift that is being advocated. In case of Nepal, the …
A brief history of GDP In the history of measurement of economic development, nothing surpasses GDPs stronghold on global economies. The single statistical measure obtained …
