Nepal’s
poorest district identified as Bajura, richest as
Mustang, by Bhuwan Sharma (rep 27/04/2024)
How
are different social groups faring? There is a need for
disaggregated data by social groups to understand it,
by Deepak Thapa (kp 07/03/2024)
Urban
poverty is on the rise, while rural poverty keeps
falling : Experts call for creation of more jobs in
order to address the livelihood issues of the urban poor,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 20/02/2024), The
poverty paradox : The steady rise in urban poverty calls
for a shift in the country’s rural areas-centric
approach (kp 26/02/2024)
Not
rising Nepal : Statistics tell us the poverty rate has
declined, the reality is different for the poorest
Nepalis (nt 17/02/2024)
Nepal
sees less than expected decline in poverty : Poverty
fell from over 25 percent in 2011 to just over 20
percent in 2023, says the Fourth Living Standard Survey,
by Krishana Prasain (kp 13/02/2024), 20.27
percent of Nepalis are living under the poverty line
(rep 13/02/2024)
Underprivileged
receive ID cards, but remain deprived of privileges,
by Govinda Luitel (rep 13/09/2023)
NRB’s
role in fueling inequality : The ever-increasing
loanable fund crisis may drastically affect the
livelihoods of the poor, by Pradip Kafle (kp
08/06/2023)
Combating
Unemployment And Poverty, by Lok Nath Bhusal (rn
12/03/2023)
Poverty
and Inequality Devastating South Asia, by Hari
Prasad Shrestha (rep 12/01/2023)
Candidates
Must Focus On Poverty Reduction, by Devendra
Gautam (rn 03/11/2022)
Multidimensional
poverty slumped in Nepal before Covid-19, global report
says : Earlier, a national report had warned that the
Covid-19 pandemic could disrupt the past gains, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 18/10/2022)
For
Achham’s Badi community, festivals are a grim reminder
of poverty : Mangalsen mayor says his local unit has
prioritised the community for succour and is working on
new uplift plans, by Menuka Dhungana (kp 12/10/2022)
Poverty
: A Multidimensional Problem, Nepalese Context, by
Garima Pant (rep 27/09/2022)
National
Land Commission collects 1.2 million applications from
landless people (kh 22/08/2022)
Social
Protection Against Poverty, by Lok Nath Bhusal (rn
19/08/2022)
35pc
Bajura people living in extreme poverty (ht
01/05/2022)
Cash
scheme for pandemic-hit poor receives poor response in
Kathmandu : Officials say strict criteria for grant
eligibility might be responsible, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 24/01/2022)
Around
33 percent households remain at risk of falling into
poverty due to COVID-19 pandemic, survey reveals (kh
22/01/2022)
Measuring
poverty in Madhesh: What should be done? The government
of Madhesh province has been claiming all along that it
is a pro-poor government. On what basis is the
government evaluating the poverty situation of the
province?, by Randhir Chaudhary (nlt 21/01/2022)
Government
indecision delays scrapping of anti-poverty body :
Staffers of Poverty Alleviation Fund remain unpaid for
four months, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 18/11/2021)
Ministry
formulating poverty alleviation plan (kh 26/10/2021)
Poverty
In Nepal, by Dixya Poudel (rn 29/09/2021)
Reducing
Multidimensional Poverty, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
31/08/2021)
Identifying
the vulnerable: Key to reducing poverty, by Simone
Galimberti (ht 25/08/2021)
Nepal’s
poverty was reduced to 17.4 percent before pandemic hit
the country: NPC (rep 18/08/2021), Pandemic
may leave Nepal’s poor more deprived, report says,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 19/08/2021), 17.4%
people under poverty line in Nepal: Govt data : Highest
in Karnali (39.5%); lowest in Bagmati (7%) (kh
19/08/2021) [see Multidomensional
Poverty Index by NPC et al. (report as PDF)],
3.1
Million Nepalis Exit From Poverty In Five Years, by
Modnath Dhakal (rn 19/08/2021)
Eradicating
Poverty, by Uttam Maharjan (rn 12/01/2021)
Children’s
education: Poverty determines the outcome, by Amar
Bahadur Sherma (ht 08/01/2021)
Revolving
funds under Poverty Alleviation Fund to be transformed
into cooperatives : Once Cabinet gives approval, as many
as 600 cooperatives will be formed nationwide, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 03/01/2021)
सहरका
गरिबको व्यवस्थापन [Urban poor management] , by Lok
Nath Bhusal (np 11/11/2020)
Pandemic's
Effect On Poverty Eradication, by Aashish Mishra (rn
17/10/2020)
Uncovering
poverty amidst the pandemic : Better data required,
by Faris Hadad-Zervos (ht 16/10/2020)
Poverty
Reduction Through Family Planning, by Balaram
Chaulagain (rn 23/08/2020)
Understanding
poverty: It is not only bad governance but a failure to
attract foreign capital and to stop cartels from forming
that has hampered development, by Niraj KC (kp
11/05/2020)
After
spending Rs 700 million to identify the poor, Nepal
still doesn't have their database: Experts say there is
a complete lack of a system to identify the poor and the
needy ones, by Shree Ram Subedi (rep 12/04/2020)
Kathmandu
city has no exact details of its poor citizens to
distribute food relief: The lockdown has greatly
affected the families living in squatter shanties, but
the city spokesperson claims not all of them need help,
by Anup Ojha (kp 04/04/2020)
Rautahat
poorest district in Province 2, policy commission says:
According to the report, Mahottari and Sarlahi are the
second and third multi-dimensionally poorest districts,
respectively, in the province, by Shiva Puri (kp
06/02/2020)
In
development and poverty alleviation, every dollar
counts: Nepal needs to invest more in data-oriented
policy prescription and project evaluation, by Astha
Wagle (kp 27/01/2020)
Impoverished
families in Sarlahi depend on hay to combat the cold:
The westerly wind and the cold wave have adversely
affected impoverished settlements in the district,
by Om Prakash Thakur (kp 19/12/2019)
Poverty
reduction is possible: There are ways to reduce poverty.
All that Nepal needs is the political will and
commitment to change the lives of the poor, by
Balkrishna Subedi (rep 23/11/2019)
Poverty
Reduction Past Efforts And Future Challenges, by Lok
Nath Bhusal (rn 10/11/2019)
The
street is their home: Homelessness has become a
recurring problem owing to federal policy failure on
poverty issues (kp 28/10/2019)
A
harsh winter stares at Kathmandu’s homeless: Even though
the prime minister has repeatedly pledged to make Nepal
‘beggar-free’, there are no real plans on how the
government will do that, by Anup Ojha (kp
26/10/2019)
Nobel
Prize in Economics: Way to alleviate poverty, by
Jiba Raj Pokharel (ht 22/10/2019)
After
six decades and billions spent poverty alleviation
remains a far cry, by Shree Ram Subedi (rep
17/10/2019)
MEDPA
in crisis: ‘Over 70% multi-billion rupee anti-poverty
training went to party henchmen’, by Shree Ram
Subedi (rep 19/09/2019)
Near
Rs 2 billion and 6 yrs later, poverty ID cards still in
limbo (rep 07/09/2019)
Poverty
Alleviation Fund may get new lease of life: Critics say
the move will be against the spirit of federalism and
could create confusion and conflict with local
governments, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 11/06/2019)
Only
10
percent of Poor ID cards distributed in seven years:
While households not identified as poor have already
received their cards, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
06/05/2019)
Disease,
hunger
and chronic poverty kill people in Humla: Doctors on the
ground say living conditions are terrible in the
district, by Arjun Poudel (kp 05/05/2019)
People
above poverty line benefit from poverty alleviation
programs, by Himnath Devkota (rep 15/04/2019)
Richest
10 % Nepalis over 26 times wealthier than poorest 40 %
(rep 11/01/2019) [see OXFAM
report], Costs
of
inequality: Key among the development challenges facing
Nepal is the ever-widening income and wealth gap between
the haves and have-nots, by Cecilia Keizer (rep
13/01/2019)
Chepangs
have tough time battling winter chills (kp
06/01/2019)
Overlooked:
Inequality and poverty go hand-in-hand, by Hari
Prasad Shrestha (kp 23/12/2018)
Second
phase of poverty survey to be launched, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 02/11/2018)
Disability
and
poverty: Breaking the ugly nexus; Hundreds of thousands
of people with disabilities in Nepal are caught in
endless poverty cycle. They need to be rescued
from that trap, by Sudarshan Neupane (rep
03/09/2018)
Individuals,
organizations to help girl in hardship continue school,
by Harikrishna Gautam (rep 24/08/2018)
A
schoolgirl writes a painful letter, by Hari Krishna
Gautam (rep 23/08/2018)
Ex-minister,
rich landlords listed as poor, by Krishna Oli and
Dil Bahadur Chhatyal (rep 13/08/2018), MP
demands re-distribution of ID to poor (rep
14/08/2018), top
misuse of ID cards meant for poor (rep 14/08/2018)
Achham’s
stark reality: Nearly half of population below proverty
line: A recent survey finds 10,071 families in the
district living in extreme poverty, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 12/08/2018)
Over
9,000 people in Jumla live below poverty line, survey
finds, by LP Devkota (kp 24/07/2018)
Preparation
to distribute ID card to poor households in final phase
(ht 10/07/2018)
Poverty
forcing people to resort to begging: Study (ht
17/03/2018)
Poverty
estimates: Robust methodology needed, by Dilli Raj
Khanal (ht 24/01/2018)
Distribution
of ID cards for poor under way (ht 16/01/2018)
29
out of 100 people poor: Govt uses Multidimensional
Poverty Index to measure national poverty for the first
time, by Rupak D. Sharma (kp 21/12/2017), Poverty
under multi-dimensional index halved in 8 yrs, by
Rudra Pangeni (rep 21/12/2017), Targeting
the poor: Reasons for poverty differ across provinces
and require distinct intervention efforts (kp
22/12/2017)
A
third of migrant households in Sunsari remain poor:
Study; It has found that about 30 percent
households, who were previously better off, became
rather poorer after migrating overseas (kp
17/12/2017)
Distribution
of Poor ID cards starts in 5 districts, by Rajesh
Khanal (kp 24/11/2017)
Income
for
all: Using the basic income guarantee approach, around
Rs 214 billion a year will be needed to uplift the 25.2
percent of our total population still living in poverty,
by Bamdev Paudel (rep 25/10/2017)
Nepalis
spending 13% of daily income for a food-plate (rep
23/10/2017)
Close
to 400k people ‘below poverty line’ (kp 18/10/2017),
71pc
of
Bajura households below poverty line: Survey; Out of the
21,711 households in the district, 13,619 have
been classified as ‘poor’ and 6,393 ‘extreme poor’
within that group (kp 18/10/2017), Multidimensional
poverty
index in Dec: The MPI captures severe deprivations that
each person faces with respect to education, health and
living standards (kp 18/10/2017), Far
from over: Combating poverty with greater
determination should be a national priority (kp
20/10/2017)
Against
poverty:
Successive governments have been less and less
accountable and more and more extractive, hampering
poverty reduction, by Siromani Dhungana (rep
17/10/2017)
Poverty
alleviation
spending in Panchthar district encouraging (ht
01/08/2017)
Fighting
poverty:
Challenge is to deliver ‘bikas’ at the doorsteps of
extremely poor communities like Chepangs and help
transform their lives by involving them at every level,
by Bhagirath Yogi (rep 01/08/2017)
Draft
social
security plan for poor families finalised (kp
29/07/2017)
People
living
below poverty line to get identity cards (ht
28/07/2017)
Leapfrogging
poverty, by Vidyadhar Mallik (nt 14/07/2017)
Debt
displacing
poor households in Bara (ht 20/06/2017)
‘Over
300,000
households poor in 25 districts’: 18 indicators
including ownership of the house, its structure, types
of cooking fuel, water and sanitation facilities,
household size and ethnicity used to calculate poverty
level , by Manish Gautam (kp 16/06/2017)
Nepal
has
20-35 percent working poverty: Report; The report states
that Nepal has unemployment rate of 4 percent. This is
equal to the United States and less than the UK and
Germany (rep 17/01/2017) [?]
Poverty
alleviation:
Thani seeks more teeth for ministry (kp 17/12/2016)
Poor
Tarai
communities hunt rats for food (ht 05/12/2016)
Needs
of
the poor: Implement findings; The poor families should
be provided identity cards that will enable them to
receive ‘social security allowance’ and ‘compulsory
health insurance’. This allowance can be used by the
poor for total health care, by Vikash Raj Satyal (ht
01/12/2016)
KMC's
urban poverty reduction plans reach nowhere, by
Gyanu Sapkota (rep 19/11/2016)
Reduced
poverty:
Much neglected; A progressive distributional policy
together with the suitable institutional setups and
arrangements at the grassroots for ensuring exclusively
the access of poor to social and physical infrastructure
as well as financial services is also a necessity,
by Dilli Raj Khanal (ht 11/11/2016)
PAF
launches
training scheme for urban poor (kp 02/09/2016)
356,418
households identified as poor in first round survey
(rep 29/08/2016)
Poverty-disaster
nexus:
It is the poor and marginalised who bear the brunt of
the overall impacts of a calamity, by Suvekshya
Gautam (kp 23/08/2016)
Genuinely
poor excluded from poverty list, by Jagat Khadka
(rep 16/08/2016)
Bonded
poverty, by Ekal Silwal (rep 13/08/2016)
Food
for
thought: Ration card for the poor is a good idea, but it
is the implementation that counts (kp 06/07/2016)
Data
says
half of Jajarkot living below poverty line (ht
13/06/2016)
Woe
is
us: Nepal is stuck in poverty while the rest of the
world has taken a great leap forward, by Shree
Prasad Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Shreeya Devkota (kp
24/05/2016)
Poverty
increases
in quake-hit districts (ht 08/05/2016)
Saptari
Dalit
families fear destitution (ht 04/05/2016)
Poverty
and
gender: Households headed by females have a lower
poverty rate than those headed by males, by Krishna
Kumar Sah (kp 03/05/2016)
Poor
show:
Nepal has not been able to make sustained progress in
bringing down the poverty rate, by Nav Raj Simkhada
(kp 29/04/2016)
Govt
aims
at reducing poverty to below 5pc (kp 01/04/2016)
Poverty
rate
alarming: Chitra Bahadur KC (ht 08/02/2016)
Bajura
plagued
by telling poverty (ht 14/09/2015)
Urban
poor
soar to 15 percent: Survey; The report showed that among
the urban poor too there is a high disparity in their
distribution in the cities, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
05/09/2015)
Poverty
deprives
Chepang women of basic needs, by Pawan Yadav and
Pratap Bista (kp 23/07/2015)
‘700,000
pushed
to poverty’ (kp 14/06/2015)
Government
to
conduct recount: The government plans to conduct a recount
of poor households in Gorkha, Tanahu, Sindhuli and
Ramechhap citing a possible increase in the figure after
the quake, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 13/06/2015)
The
poor
and poorer: Poverty alleviation programmes and the
influx of remittance, are not eliminating poverty; they
are simply creating new kinds of poor, by Radha
Paudel (kp 24/04/2015)
Poverty
falls
to 33.1 per cent in six districts (ht 31/03/2015)
Alleviating
Poverty, by S. Shrestha (rn 25/01/2015)
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