Nepal

18 December 2024 - Inés Arangüena Andrew Aziz Hang Tran
Nepal scales-up its capacity to export its unique products
Nepal’s first Diagnostic Trade Integration Strategy (DTIS) in 2003 identified a range of products with comparative and competitive advantages; these included, for example, several labour-intensive manufacturing and agricultural products. This was followed by an update in 2010, the Nepal Trade Integration Strategy (NTIS 2010), which outlined actionable priorities for export sector development. Based on these priorities, projects were implemented to strengthen value chains for ginger, medicinal and aromatic plants, and Chyangra Pashmina (CP), with support from the EIF. The NTIS 2016 further emphasized product and value chain development, including in the tea sector, leading to the implementation of a dedicated tea project to strengthen the capacity of this sector.
Agriculture
Impact catalogue
Trade facilitation
Women and trade
16 August 2022
Tea Processing at Innovative Jasbire Tea Factory
The tea makers eagerly await a specific aroma or, as they say, “for the teas to speak.” The machines are switched off as soon as the leaves emit that particular aroma. The rolled hunks of darker, chunkier leaves are then hauled to the drying machine. There, another dexterous worker awaits the leaves.
Agriculture
18 May 2021 - Helen Castell
UNCTAD LDC Report: putting productive capacities first
Expanding and diversifying productive capacities will better position least developed countries (LDCs) to tap the financing and e-trade opportunities that will underpin their Covid-19 recovery. This was a recurrent theme in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Least Developed Countries Report 2020, which cautioned however that the international community must first rally with resources, policy space and better international support measures.
Financing
Ecommerce
18 February 2021 - Aadesh Subedi
Rising heat and snow-bare peaks chill Nepal's mountain economy
Originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 03:30 GMT
Agriculture
Environment
29 July 2020 - Michelle Kovacevic
Making it faster and easier for South Asian women to take businesses online
Recently launched ecommerce training program and portal will help hundreds of women entrepreneurs in South Asian LDCs become part of regional and global supply chains.
Ecommerce
Women and trade
21 April 2020 - Deanna Ramsay
What are least developed countries doing in response to COVID-19?
A roundup of recent news on the global pandemic, covering issues facing some of the world’s poorest countries – and what they are doing
COVID-19
15 April 2020 - Duncan Maru Sabitri Sapkota
Coronavirus is coming for the world's poor. Here are six ways to help.
Originally published in World Economic Forum Agenda on 23 March 2020
COVID-19
Trade facilitation
16 September 2019 - Deanna Ramsay Michelle Kovacevic
In Nepal, trade in ginger is spicing up lives
Cooperative endeavor to enhance exports yields solid solutions
Agriculture
Trade facilitation
26 August 2019 - Cécile de Gardelle
Ramkrishna Adhikari: With a young, tech-savvy population, Nepal forging ahead on its ecommerce path
Nepal’s Under Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies talks all things trade – online
Ecommerce
13 August 2019 - Michelle Kovacevic
New WTO research puts spotlight on natural disasters and trade
How can countries use trade to promote resilience?
Aid for Trade
Environment
Global Review 2019
5 August 2019 - Michelle Kovacevic
Nepal sees ginger ‘revival’
Making more and better ginger crops means more income
Agriculture
23 April 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
For LDC exporters and EU importers, getting back to origins
Digital system set to streamline procedures for trade from LDCs to the EU
Trade policy
8 March 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
Over 10 years, working with and for trade development in LDCs
Addressing trade in its many forms, EIF partnership creating sustainable impacts
Aid for Trade
6 August 2018
Taking trade online
What do a mountainous landlocked country, a post-war African nation, and three small island developing states have in common?
Ecommerce
31 July 2018 - Hang Tran Deanna Ramsay
For wool creatives in Nepal, making all the right connections is key
Flock maintaining, brand strengthening, and market expanding: Nepal's pashmina producers are aiming high
Trade facilitation
8 June 2018 - Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)
Infographic: Highlights from the Nepal Trade Integration Study (NTIS)
Study identifies priority sectors for impact
Trade facilitation
17 November 2015 - Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)
Trade, building sustainable livelihoods, fostering greater competition and managing water conservation
Chandra and her 25 colleagues from her women's association take a break from the day's farming business to hold a meeting on their ginger business prospects and the stiff market competition they face with India's value-added ginger.
Agriculture
Women and trade
7 July 2015
Stories from the ground - Chad, Lesotho, Nepal and Vanuatu
Aid for Trade
19 July 2013
Trading stories: Nepal
Aid for Trade
18 July 2013
Trading stories
Aid for Trade