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Highlight related to agriculture and access to food: The agricultural sector in Nepal is projected to grow over the medium term, primarily due to increased paddy production. A significant increase...

In April 2024, Nepal saw a 1.8 percent increase in the prices of food and beverages compared to the previous month. During the same period, the year-on-year inflation rate for food...

In February 2024, Nepal saw moderate inflation with year-on-year figures for overall consumer inflation at 5.0 percent and food and beverage inflation at 6.5 percent. Prices for cereals...

From mid-November to December 2023, Nepal witnessed the lowest Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) in 12 months. The average year-on-year CPI registered a decline of 4.9 percent, which...

Numerous structural vulnerabilities put developing regions at a disadvantage as they confront the prospect of increasingly frequent extreme shocks. Typical of these regions, South Asia had...

We use economywide models to examine the economic recovery from COVID-19 shocks in Bangladesh and Nepal during 2020–2026. Declining labor productivity, capital underutilization, consumption shifts...

Global economic growth is set to slow in 2023, compared with the previous year. Continued high inflation and the effects of monetary policy tightening added pressure s to economic...

At just under six percent, South Asia is expected to grow faster than any other developing country region this year—but slower than its pre-pandemic pace and not...

A timing misalignment between high import demand and still-recovering remittance inflows created an external funding mismatch during Nepal’s growth recovery in FY21 and FY22. As imports...

Highlights: Across goods categories, inflation of food items has gone up or stayed high, while energy-related inflation has mostly come down more, compared...