Ram C Acharya

A reform-minded budget offers encouraging signals, but falls short of the decisive shift needed to place investment, jobs, and exports at the centre of Nepal's growth agenda.

SEE failures are only the tip of the iceberg; the deeper crisis is the steady loss of students before they reach the exam.

A critical reading of the Ministry of Finance’s latest report reveals not just what is said, but what is left unsaid.

Nepal is a low-energy country with paradoxically high fuel vulnerability.

Nepal’s vote is a revolt against exhausted parties, stale ideologies, and political decay.

Nepal’s path to prosperity requires moving beyond election-time “moon promises” toward disciplined institution-building, credible rules, productive investment, and measurable accountability.

Nepal has money, but not the investment system needed to turn its savings into lasting prosperity.

Living the paradox: one of the world’s most hydropower-rich countries remains among its lowest electricity users.

Nepal’s education system wastes resources, deepens inequality, and channels schooling toward exit rather than prosperity.

The conditions that produced that uprising are still entirely intact: stagnant growth, weak institutions, and a political order that rewards power over performance I left Nepal in 1990 for Canada at a moment of great political promise. The Panchayat system had just fallen, and a multiparty interim...