Nepal and ADB

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Country Planning Documents
Macroeconomic Update: Nepal (September 2020)
This Update provides forecasts for FY2021 growth, inflation and current account balance while analyzing Nepal’s macroeconomic performance in FY2020.
News from Country Offices
Nepal's Economy to Slow Further in FY2021
Nepal’s economy is anticipated to grow by 1.5% in fiscal year (FY) 2021 from the preliminary estimate of 2.3% in FY2020, says the latest Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2020 Update, a flagship publication of the ADB.
Project Result / Case Study
Farmers in Nepal reap the benefits of rehabilitated farmers-managed irrigation systems
Agriculture plays a key role in Nepal’s economy, contributing 27% of gross domestic product in 2019, engaging 55% of the country’s working age population (above 15 years) in subsistence agriculture. However, Nepal’s agriculture sector suffers from low productivity, one of the main reasons being insufficient irrigation and heavy dependence on the monsoon rain.

Papers and Briefs
Land Use Management Strategies for Equitable Infrastructure and Urban Development: Overview of Strategies and Tools
A land management strategy should enable public and private stakeholders to act in the market in an efficient way.

Data: Nepal ADB and Nepal: Fact Sheet

Economic Forecast

GDP forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Poverty in Nepal

Development indicators for Nepal, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results of ADB-Supported Operations, 2010-2018

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects. Additional funds are provided in the form of official loans and grants, technical assistance, other concessional financing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, parallel loans and equity, guarantee cofinancing, and cofinancing for transactions under ADB’s Trade Finance Program.

Nepal: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in Nepal

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study
Farmers in Nepal reap the benefits of rehabilitated farmers-managed irrigation systems
Agriculture plays a key role in Nepal’s economy, contributing 27% of gross domestic product in 2019, engaging 55% of the country’s working age population (above 15 years) in subsistence agriculture. However, Nepal’s agriculture sector suffers from low productivity, one of the main reasons being insufficient irrigation and heavy dependence on the monsoon rain.
Project Result / Case Study
Five years after the Nepal earthquake – building back better schools for a safer future
Khadka and her family, like millions of others, were affected by the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in 2015. ADB's Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project in Nepal financed the rebuilding of quality schools to withstand future disasters.
Project Result / Case Study
Reliable Electricity Supply Gives New Lease on Life to Nepal’s Villages
ADB projects in Nepal are strengthening the nation's electricity transmission system while improving people's lives at the grassroots level.