Infrastructure

Infrastructure in Nepal: Look beyond Kathmandu

13 March 2013

India’s infrastructure woes are well-documented. Various numbers are bandied about with respect to how many percentage points of economic growth are lost each year as a result insufficient and poor quality…

We fool no one

16 June 2013

On his visit to Yunnan province in China recently, vice president Parmananda Jha made an appeal to Chinese investors to put money in Nepal and benefit from the investment-friendly environment in the country. Among other things, he urged them to invest in sectors…

FDI in Nepal: A hard sell

17 February 2013

For several years now, entrepreneurs in Nepal have cried hoarse over the need for greater foreign direct investment into the country. These years of effort on the part of the private sector have been matched with years of inability on the…

Let there be light

13 July 2013

‘Performance must meet potential’ is a commonly used refrain in sports commentary —…

Tourists won’t just come

21 July 2013

Road to growth

4 August 2013

For a predominantly mountainous and landlocked country as Nepal is, the prospects of…

Get on with it

22 December 2013

Now that the second Constituent Assembly elections have been held and the results declared, it is time everybody in the country accepted the results for what they are, and started working on completing the tasks at hand. Unfortunately, this is not happening.

Keep the goats away

23 February 2014

Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, once wrote that nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Rather unfortunately, there is also a degree of certainty over at least one plane crash in Nepal every year. Tragically…