Nepal's LDC Graduation: Implication, Opportunities, and Pathways According to United Nation (UN), Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are defined as nations with the lowest socioeconomic development levels, characterized by low income, weak human assets, and high economic and environmental vulnerability. Nepal 01 Oct, 2024
Rich countries attain record human development, but half of the poorest have gone backwards, finds UN Development Programme Uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarization on a global scale. Nepal 15 Mar, 2024
Diplomacy: A tool for socio-economic uplift Development is the target that each country tries to meet through policies of various dimensions. The world today is much connected and inter-linked through a network of global diplomatic initiatives and actions that are woven during times of peace as well as conflict. Opinion 29 Sep, 2023
Nepal slightly improves in HDI ranking: UNDP report Nepal has improved its ranking from 144th to 143th position, although the Human Development Index (HDI) value has marginally declined from 0.604 to 0.602 due to continued turbulence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report. Kathmandu 13 Sep, 2022
Green CAPEX At last November’s COP26 in Glasgow, India set a target date of 2070 to achieve net zero (compared to 2050 for advanced economies and 2060 for China). Nepal 04 Apr, 2022
EDITORIAL: Focus on GNI Nepal must do adequate homework to meet the necessary threshold related to GNI per capita to graduate from a LDC Opinion 01 Mar, 2021
UN Committee for Development Policy recommends promotion of Nepal from Least Developed Country category United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has recommended for Nepal’s graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category with preparatory period of five years. Nepal 27 Feb, 2021
World Bank elevates Nepal to �lower middle income economy� Country saw its GNI per capita rise to $1,090 in 2019, but economists says it doesn’t mean much in terms of development KATHMANDU, JULY 3 Nepal is now officially a lower-middle income country, an upgrade from its previous status as low income... 04 Jul, 2020
EDITORIAL: Ending inequalities Most of the countries in South Asia are way ahead of Nepal, making it more and more difficult to catch up with them Nepal has improved its standing in the Human Development Index (HDI) 2019 by two spots compared to last year, but it is of little... 12 Dec, 2019
Human development �medium� in Nepal HDI Report Kathmandu, September 15 Nepal slipped five spots from 144 to 149 among 189 countries in the Human Development Index ranking in 2017, according to the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development... Travel 16 Sep, 2018
Surging internet cost to affect National Broadband Policy target The policy envisions to bring broadband cost below 5pc of GNI per capita Kathmandu, July 17 Increasing internet cost in Nepal is likely to affect the country’s target to bring down broadband internet prices to or below five per cent of the gross... 18 Jul, 2018
Country classifications The World Bank assigns the world’s economies into four income groups — high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low. We base this assignment on GNI per capita calculated using the Atlas method. The units for this measure and for the thresholds is... 03 Jul, 2017
