Nepal’s biggest festival Dashain fails to lift the market mood, buyers and sellers say

Incomes have gone down, prices have gone up with supply chain obstructions in a country where 82 percent of the gross domestic product is based on consumption.

Prabha Karki has never missed wearing new clothes for tika on Bijaya Dashami, the tenth day of the Dashain festival. But this year, she has not planned on buying new clothes.