School scholarship funds go unspent while students drop out due to poverty
“It’s not that I didn’t want to study. It was impossible for me to continue my education because of poverty,” he said. Nepal has made impressive progress …
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Meat, money, and the middle class
With a reduction of the country’s poverty rate, Nepalis are eating more meat and eggs per capita than ever before, improving their nutrition levels and …
People below poverty line should be given free electricity: Energy Minister Bhusal
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Minister Bhusal said the ministry is considering the possibility of providing people living under the poverty …
UN chief: World hunger worsened by climate change, conflict
“Poverty, income inequality and the high cost of food continue to keep healthy diets out of the reach of some 3 billion people,” Guterres said. “Climate …
How to strengthen anti-poverty efforts
From 1990 to 2019, the number of people living in extreme poverty (according to the World Bank threshold of $1.90 per day) plummeted, from 1.9 …
Too quick a fall
Detractors of communists in Nepal often say that the latter perpetuate poverty so that their politics based on class struggle remains relevant. The richer …
Government prepares to scrap Poverty Alleviation Fund in next three months
In order to implement the anti-poverty programmes, the fund had created around 32,000 revolving funds to be managed by local communities. These …
The proof of the pudding
China on Thursday established the China-South Asian Countries Poverty Alleviation and Cooperative Development Centre at a programme organised …
China aims to create an alternative regional bloc in South Asia
Observers say Nepal needs to tread carefully as the Beijing-led Poverty Alleviation Centre minus India is part of Chinese attempts to expand its influence …
Food and medical supplies provided to poor and differently-abled in Mugu
… 100 families, suffering from poverty due to the enforced prohibitory order in Mugu district, following the spread of the second wave of COVID-19.
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