Amid increasing interest rates and housing prices, will land use policy help at all?
Post-Pandemic, the interest rate in the financial sector of Nepal has increased drastically. According to the report published by the […]
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Cracking Nepal’s new stock exchange dilemma
The overall picture of public penetration of the capital market in a country can be seen through the measure of […]
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Breaking the bottlenecks to regional hydropower connectivity
Nepal has come a long way from being a power-starved nation to a power surplus country exporting hydroelectricity. Gone are […]
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Seed security: A path to secured agriculture sector in Nepal
This article was originally published in www.nepallivetoday.com on October 3, 2022 by Niyati Shrestha. Ms. Shrestha is a researcher at […]
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Solid waste management in Kathmandu and the way forward
After the recent local-level elections, the newly-elected Mayor Balendra Shah’s initiatives have been praiseworthy in the matters of solid waste […]
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Environment and economic prosperity: Do we really have to choose?
During the 1970s when environmentalism was getting started, the dominant belief was that markets are the cause of environmental degradation, […]
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How does an agricultural country fail in agriculture?
Agriculture provides livelihoods for 68 percent of Nepal’s population, the data from the International Labor Organization shows. In 2020/21, it accounted for […]
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What are you wearing? Adidas or Abibas?
Imagine this–you go to a store and ask for a packet of Frooti mango juice, and the shopkeeper hands you […]
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Parliamentary committees in Nepal: Scope and constraints
Parliamentary committees in Nepal have had a rich history. Their formation or at least the imagination of their functioning in […]
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Public procurement auction: Why transparency and measurability of the promised quality is necessary
Public procurement process is plagued by lack of transparency leading to corruption and loss of utility of the general public. […]
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Nepal Oil Corporation’s Price Stabilization Fund: Have Nepalis benefited from it?
As a country that is utterly and unequivocally reliant on the import of refined oil (with no domestic oil extraction […]
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The bitter side of Nepal’s sugar economy
The plight of sugarcane farmers has come to much limelight in recent years with several Sugarcane Farmers Struggle Committee-led protests […]
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The center cannot hold
On July 15, the president gave assent to a bill entitled Amendment to Nepal Police and Province Police Act. The […]
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Export promotion: Path to attain economic prosperity for Nepal
Nepal has been buzzing. From tea shops to leading news portals the talk around the dire economic state of the […]
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Is Nepal Oil Corporation’s proposal to government rationale?
Nepal Oil Corporation on July 4 submitted a ten-point proposal to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies with recommendations […]