Poverty – the real pandemic
Poverty – the real pandemic. Long before coronavirus came along a rural Nepal hospital has been battling a pre-existing public health crisis. COMMENT.
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Pandemic to hit growth in Asia, China: World Bank
The baseline scenario called for nearly 24 million fewer people to escape poverty across the region in 2020 due to the pandemic. If the economic …
Counties without coronavirus are mostly rural, poor
… to elderly patients living in extreme poverty in Mora County, where there have been no confirmed COVID-19 infections and few if any people tested.
China Foundation to install handwash stations in Province 2
KATHMANDU, March 28: China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFAP) Nepal Office on Saturday provided hand wash materials to locals of …
KMC to provide relief package to homeless, daily wage earners
… Children and Senior Citizens revealed that a majority of people begged on the premises of temples in and outside Kathmandu valley due to poverty.
Dowry still rampant in Nepali society
Apart from poverty, illiteracy is another cause of this form of violence against women. As per the 2011 census, 65.9 per cent of the total population is …
Land-related problems to be resolved: Minister Aryal
Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padma Kumari Aryal said problems of landless squatters would be resolved.
Minister Padma Kumari Aryal visits hailstone-hit farmers in Phedikhola
Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padma Kumari Aryal today made an onsite visit of Phedikhola Rural Municipality, …
Road to apocalypse
Vulnerabilities arising from climate change are in areas of freshwater resources, environmental degradation, food production, poverty, hydropower, …
EDITORIAL: Ambitious target
Reduction of poverty, famine and creation of job opportunities are the prime goals of the plan. Under the periodic plan, the government has set a target …
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