What are Nepal's competitive advantages?

Earlier, using globally available indicators, I sought to answer two questions: Are we a fragile country ? What are the sources of our governance failure ? This time, I look into our competitive advantages, that is, the factors that are uniquely available to us so that we can compete in a global market. This will take us to reading Global Competitive Index (GCI) produced by the World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Davos, Switzerland.

Before sieving through the data, let us first recall what our politicians and policymakers have to say about our competitive advantages.