It's August 2025, and Nepal's Bajura district is mournful-even angry. The Himalayan Times this week laid bare how a new generation of Nepalese children starve as their mothers weep by cracked beds in ...

As Nepal wrestles with a deadly wave of Covid-19, efforts to help vulnerable families there are facing new and unimaginable challenges. Maggie Doyne, the 2015 CNN Hero of the Year, has spent nearly 15 ...

The financial sector in Nepal comprises 20 commercial banks, 17 development banks, 17 finance companies, 54 microfinance ...

China's bachelor crisis meets Nepal's poverty in a trade that blurs the lines between arranged marriage and coercion Late one night in southern Nepal last month, whispers spread of an unusual wedding ...

Results from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into poverty because of loss of jobs and income during 2020 due to the pandemic. And ...

Two years ago, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake destroyed Sita Kumal’s house in Nepal’s Gorkha district — 65 miles from the capital Kathmandu and the area hardest hit by the disaster. Kumal, 27, was already ...

Fatalism, including acceptance of harmful traditions, exacerbates poverty in Nepal. However, a lack of spiritual awareness and fatalism are also impediments to progress among educated, well-to-do ...

The Himalayan country will move up to developing country status from its current status as a Least Developed Country in November 2026. The global community could slash poverty in Asia at the click of ...

Officials from the government in Nepal are to visit every house in the country. They will collect information to help try to assess who is living below the poverty line and who will be entitled to new ...

JHOR, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With a large cone-shaped bamboo basket strapped to her back, Nirmala Bhandari treks two hours every day from her village to a protected forest in the hills, ...