Context Private Sector in Nepal: Following the restoration of peace and the establishment of liberal economic policies in the 1990s, there have been years of sustained private sector expansion in...
Risk assessments are an essential element of any organization’s compliance program. The Principles on Combating Corruption for Business Associations and Chambers of Commerce (“Principles”) advise business membership organizations (“Associations”) to...
COVID-19 has thrown international trade and investment into disarray; however, it is first and foremost a global health crisis. With Global Value Chains (GVCs) receiving heightened scrutiny, no other industry...
In the last decade, the pandemic of populism, both of the left and the right, has spread far and wide across continents, across different types of countries of varying levels...
The Nepali economy shows an atypical structural change over the past one and half decades – the movement of labor out of agriculture was not triggered by new jobs in...
Globalization cannot simply resume after the virus is no longer a worldwide threat. The scars left behind are simply too deep to cover up with platitudes and promises to do...
Introduction On 11 March 2020, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). In Sri Lanka, the first diagnosis of COVID-19 was reported on 27...
Introduction Thailand has emerged as a success story in containing the COVID-19 outbreak, but the country still faces tremendous pressure on several fronts. A major effort will be required to...
Summary The post-pandemic recovery will require large sums of investment that will not be met through interventions from development partners. Nepal will have to open itself to foreign investments by...
Introduction Flip through any important official or political document, whether the Constitution of Nepal, the election manifestos of political parties or a development plan of the government, tourism seems a...
