Even 5 percent economic growth looks ambitious

The ratio of capital formation to GDP has been consistently decreasing since 2018. This makes growth difficult to achieve.

Nepal’s economy that has been facing one after another setbacks since the 2015 earthquake has been struggling to bounce back. Last week, two international agencies—the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)—announced that Nepal’s economy was poised to improve in the upcoming fiscal year. In this context, the Post ’s Thira Lal Bhusal sat down with Nar Bahadur Thapa , former executive director of the research department of Nepal Rastra Bank, to discuss the current state of the national economy.