Nepal Economic Forum

Nepal Economic Forum Nepal Economic Forum (NEF) is a not for profit organization aiming to be Nepal’s premier private sect NEF broadly works under three areas:

1. beed devCon

NEF's mission is to engage in research, analysis and information dissemination to ultimately shape national agendas through partnerships. NEF stands out in being able to make significant strides in terms of bringing the private sector perspective as well as engaging with both, public and private sectors in the development discourse. NEF is currently a recipient of the Open Society Foundations' Think Tank Fund. The Business Policy Research Center (BPRC)
2. Center for Public, Private and Community Partnerships (PPCP)
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Could Nepal's youth succeed where infrastructure deals and trade treaties have not?In this piece, Wei Wu, Assistant Pr...
23/09/2026

Could Nepal's youth succeed where infrastructure deals and trade treaties have not?

In this piece, Wei Wu, Assistant Professor at Shenzhen University, traces how young Nepali entrepreneurs, from tea exporters to Chinese-market-bound MBA students, are quietly reshaping Nepal-China trade: "Nepal's promising economic energy resides in the disciplined, restless ambition of its young people. A future shaped by young, mobile, curious minds is far more promising than one defined only by road corridors and cargo volumes."

Read the full piece: https://nepaleconomicforum.org/where-himalayan-aspirations-meet-a-chinese-market-the-quiet-remaking-of-nepals-trade-future/

Nepal is asking the world's newest climate fund to pay out for the first time ever, and the fund has never paid anyone. ...
21/09/2026

Nepal is asking the world's newest climate fund to pay out for the first time ever, and the fund has never paid anyone. The Bhotekoshi floods killed more than 1,500 people and caused over NPR 408 billion in damage and losses in a country that emits just 0.54 tonnes of carbon per person a year. The result is a climate finance system that is too slow to protect the people who did the least to cause the crisis and too thin to help them recover once it hits.

In this week's , Aakriti Bharati unpacks what the Bhotekoshi floods reveal about global climate finance, from a Green Climate Fund project that took seven years to approve to the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage's first-ever test. It asks what it will take, internationally and within Nepal, to turn climate finance into real resilience before the next disaster hits.

Read here: https://nepaleconomicforum.org/the-bhotekoshi-floods-and-the-price-of-climate-finance-delay/

17/09/2026

The broken window theory: paying to repair damage doesn't create new wealth, it just replaces what was lost, even though it looks like growth on paper.

Nepal's GDP tells this story at a national scale. Since 2015, the country's floods, landslides, and fires have rarely dented annual growth figures, not because the damage wasn't real, but because reconstruction spending counts as new output, while what's destroyed never gets subtracted.

The latest flood along the Trishuli River corridor has left over 1,300 dead, thousands missing, and damage estimated near a tenth of Nepal's economy. If history repeats, next year's GDP may still look strong.

Read the latest asking what that data is hiding.
Read here: https://nepaleconomicforum.org/growth-without-recovery-what-nepals-gdp-hides-about-its-disasters/

Featuring: Sunita Shahi, Research Intern at Nepal Economic Forum

We are pleased to warmly welcome four distinguished professionals to the Nepal Economic Forum as Senior Fellows, Isha Sh...
16/09/2026

We are pleased to warmly welcome four distinguished professionals to the Nepal Economic Forum as Senior Fellows, Isha Sharma, who brings valuable expertise in finance, lending, financial analysis, and risk management; Nasala Maharjan, a dedicated public policy professional with experience in governance, climate, migration, and agriculture; Rojika Maharjan, a PhD researcher in political science at the University of Amsterdam, focusing on labor migrant returnees and reintegration in Nepal; and Tom Schneider, a management consultant with over a decade of experience advising governments on strategy and public sector reform in the UK.

Their varied backgrounds and expertise in finance, public policy, migration, and governance will undoubtedly enrich NEF’s efforts to promote evidence-based economic dialogue in Nepal. We are truly excited to have them join us and look forward to the valuable insights they will share with our community. Welcome to NEF!

Can insurance do more than pay for damage after a flood, or can it actually help communities adapt before disaster strik...
15/09/2026

Can insurance do more than pay for damage after a flood, or can it actually help communities adapt before disaster strikes?

In this , Mahendra Krishna Shrestha, Chairman of Himalayan Everest Insurance and Advisory Board Member at Nepal Economic Forum, argues that as climate change reshapes disaster risk in the Himalayas, insurance must shift from simply compensating losses to actively preventing them.

Read the full piece here: https://nepaleconomicforum.org/protection-against-the-unexpected/

can lose billions to disasters and still look like its economy is doing fine. GDP counts the rebuilding that follows a...
14/09/2026

can lose billions to disasters and still look like its economy is doing fine. GDP counts the rebuilding that follows a disaster, but not the homes, livelihoods, income and wealth that were destroyed in the first place. The result is a recovery that can look strong on paper while families are still paying the real cost.

In this week's , Shubham Thapa and Sunita Shahi traces Nepal's economic growth from 2011 to 2025 alongside a decade of disasters, highlighting the 2015 earthquake, the 2017 floods, and the August 2026 disaster. It asks what Nepal's headline growth figures miss, and why reconstruction spending can look like economic progress even when the country is simply rebuilding what it already had.

Read here: https://nepaleconomicforum.org/growth-without-recovery-what-nepals-gdp-hides-about-its-disasters/

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