by NIPoRe | Nov 18, 2019 | Center for Governance Studies, Center for Human Development, Research Commentaries
Sanjay Pokharel Synopsis For long, the tourism sector has remained as one of the key components of Nepal’s national economy. With less than two months left before the formal beginning of “Visit Nepal 2020” (VNY2020), key stakeholders within the Government of Nepal and...
by NIPoRe | Nov 11, 2019 | Center for Governance Studies, Center for New Economy and Inequality, Research Commentaries
Prashanta Pradhan Synopsis Nepal ranked 94 in the recently published World Bank’s Doing Business Report with an increase in score from 59.7 to 63.2 in just a year. Improvements were reported in scores on dealing with construction permits, trading across borders and...
by NIPoRe | Oct 25, 2019 | Center for Strategic Affairs, Research Commentaries
Santosh Sharma Poudel Synopsis President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping visited Nepal on 12-13 October for his first state visit, 23 years after President Jiang Zemin’s state visit to the Himalayan nation in December 1996. The much-anticipated...
by NIPoRe | Oct 18, 2019 | Center for Governance Studies, Center for Human Development, Center for New Economy and Inequality, Research Commentaries
Nirnaya Bhatta Synopsis Understandably, there is a national fixation on undertaking grand infrastructural projects, also reflected in the Joint Statement between Nepal and China released during the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit, in various sectors...
by NIPoRe | Oct 11, 2019 | Center for Governance Studies, Center for Strategic Affairs, Research Commentaries
Santosh Sharma Poudel Synopsis In my last Research Commentary, I summarized that Nepali foreign policy moved from ‘special relations’ with India towards diversification in the 1950s and 1960s. This period coincides with the direct rule of King Birendra. In this...
by NIPoRe | Oct 2, 2019 | Center for Governance Studies, Center for Human Development, Center for New Economy and Inequality, Research Commentaries
Kaushal Sapkota Synopsis This commentary explores the prospects of individual fundraising in the context of Nepali nonprofit organizations. It attempts to evaluate individual giving in the U.S., other developed countries and in India, through secondary research. While...