Highlights - Nepal: critical development constraints - country diagnostics studies

The study highlights the Nepal's pace of economic growth and poverty reduction, critical obstacles hindering, policies and reforms to accelerate the country's development progress.

Nepal’s pace of growth and poverty reduction has lagged behind that of other South Asian countries. The country diagnostic study—Nepal: Critical Development Constraints—attempts to identify the causes for the slow growth by examining three questions:
• What are the critical factors constraining investments and economic growth?
• What should policymakers do to revive investments?
• How can economic growth be made more inclusive?

This highlights of the main report present the key findings from examining the three questions.