Using the previous poverty threshold, Nepal’s absolute poverty rate theoretically fell from 25.16% in 2011 to only 3.6% in 2023. However, the threshold for per capita expenditure has since been raised ...

Rural poverty exceeds urban poverty. According to the Nepal Living Standards Survey 2022-2023, poverty was higher in rural areas, with 24.66%, compared to urban areas, where it was 18.34%.

For one farmer, the barley supply once made flour for a year. Now, it is limited to two handfuls. The loss of US aid adds to the long list of challenges.

Nepal has failed to bring down the poverty rate in the past 12 years as 20% of the population remains pegged below the poverty line, says a new government survey.

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Nepal‘s “Bhunte” marks the feature debut of Bikas Neupane, who previously directed two acclaimed shorts.. The project has been selected for the 21st Hong Kong — Asia Film Financing Forum ...

November 24, 2014 — On a trip to their childhood home in eastern Nepal in the early 2000s, Nepalese staff members of the Mountain Institute — an organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., that ...

We flew to Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepalgunj and finally to Jumla where interpreters and another missionary team joined us for the 21-mile trek from 8,000 to 9,300 feet above sea level.

See pictures from Selena Gomez's UNICEF trip to Nepal, ... “At first when you witness children living in extreme poverty you wonder how it is possible that they can be deprived of their basic ...

The fourth Nepal living standards survey 2022-23 report released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) revealed that 20.27 percent of the population lived below the poverty line in 2023.