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Country Planning Documents | 30 April 2021
Macroeconomic Update: Nepal (April 2021)
This Update provides forecasts for FY2021 and FYI 2022 growth, inflation and current account balance while analyzing Nepal’s macroeconomic performance in FY2020.
Video | 29 April 2021
Results Reality Virtual Exhibit Trailer
ADB’s virtual Results Reality website provides a glimpse of the results of completed and ongoing water sector projects in Nepal.
News from Country Offices | 28 April 2021
Nepal’s Economy to Post Modest Recovery in FY2021
Nepal’s gross domestic product is anticipated to grow by 3.1% in fiscal year (FY) 2021 from a contraction of 1.9% in FY2020, says the Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2021, the flagship economic publication of ADB.

Reports | 23 January 2019
Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: Stocktake of National Responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15
This report presents the results of a survey of 15 developing countries in Asia and the Pacific regarding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 12, 14, and 15.

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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

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 | 8 September 2020
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 | 24 April 2020
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 | 24 July 2019
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.