Nepal Economic Forum

Nepal’s Gen Z protests revealed more than the organizing power of social media. They showed that digital platforms have become places where people practice citizenship. People encounter public issues, compare experiences, question authority, and decide whether to act through these platforms. For Nepal, the democratic challenge is clear: how can the energy of rapid online mobi...

Walk through a hill village in Gorkha or Baitadi during planting season, and you will notice something: fewer hands in the fields than there used to be. A son is in Qatar, a daughter-in-law is in Kuwait, and the previously double-cropped terraces are now planted once, if at all. The house has a new tin roof and a motorcycle parked outside, paid for by money wired home every m...

Three round tables discussing Bangladesh-Nepal Relations, organized by Nepal Economic Forum (NEF) and Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), in Kathmandu, in Dhaka, and a December review, have produced a proceedings report that doubles as taking stock of the relation between the countries over the past years. The series did its job keeping a thin trading relationship thick enough ...

Nepali workers abroad sent home USD 13.26 billion in the first ten months of FY 2025/26 alone. Yet the economy they left behind saved less than ten cents of every dollar it produced. How does a country take in this much and end up no closer to escaping poverty? Nepal’s governance failures are not confined to one sector. Remittances, public debt, and a large informal economy a...

In August 2026, I completed my first trip back to Shenzhen from Kathmandu, and a vivid scene at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) offered me an intuitive and profound insight into the current landscape of Nepal’s tourism industry. While queuing for check-in, I witnessed fully crowded counters of both Air India and Himalaya Airlines, yet the two queues presented entirely d...