Economic Survey with ‘outdated’ data gives false narrative of economy hard hit by coronavirus

Economic Survey with ‘outdated’ data gives false narrative of economy hard hit by coronavirus

May 27, 2020 19:04 pm

KATHMANDU, May 27: The government unveiled the Economic Survey of the current fiscal year 2019/20 on Tuesday, its assessment of the performance of the country's various economic and financial indicators. But, reading this report in the end of May will take you back to mid-March, and gives you a false sense that the country's economy has been doing fairly well.

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