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Item Effectiveness and barriers of E-governance in public service delivery of Kathmandu metropolitan city(2024) Khadka, Shiva; Dipak Bahadur AdhikariAvailable in fulltextItem Macroeconomic determinants of VAT revenue in Nepal(2024) Panta, Bishumna; Ananta Raj DahalAvailable in full textItem Role of Annapurna conservation area project (ACAP) in rural household economy of Machhapuchchhre VDC, Kaski(2013) Pun, Dil; Laxmi Kanta SharmaThis study entitled "Role of ACAP in rural household economy of Machhapuchchhre V.D.C.", Kaski is focused on the objectives to examine the role of ACAP, its socio-economic impacts and to find out the level of production, employment, inequality and income in Machhapuchre VDC. Both analytical and statistical research methods have been used for accomplishing the objectives of this study. This research is based on the data for a period of 10 years. Percentage, Mean, Variance,Gini-Coefficient, χ – testand F-test were used to examine the role of ACAP in Machhapuchre VDC. The study shows that number of households and people involved in agricultural development with modern technology has been significantly increased and the production of cereal crops, vegetables and animal husbandry could raise the living standard of people of the study area. The average income of the household was found277.05 thousands Rupees and Gini's coefficient value was 0.3969 showing decreasingrate of inequality. The F-statistics test confirmed that the programes of ACAP weresuccessful in increasing the income, employment, environmental awareness and improving the living standard of people in the project implemented area. Overall, the residents of the project area were supportive of ACAP’s programme andthe household economy was significantly strength ened due to the project. Also the study confirmed that the natural and socio-economic awareness impact was reflectedin the general life of the people. Further studies are recommended in the area specially for the impact analysis of socio-cultural factors like values and institution and technology. Keywords: Socio-economic impact, employment, income, production, inequality.Item Study of trend and pattern of public expenditure on import(2013) Koirala, Bhuwan Kumar; Sanjay Bahadur SinghNot availableItem Nepal's foregin trade with India: problems and prospects(2013) Regmi, Tek Narayan; Mitra Lal PaudelForeign trade plays a significant role in the economic growth and development of a country. India is the biggest trading partner of Nepal. Export and Import both are in increasing trend but export is lower than the import. This results higher trade deficit which causes deficit in balance of payment. Nepal is facing huge trade deficit problem in recent years. This study attempts to explore the trends and patterns of imports,exports and balance of trade between Nepal and India. The research is primarily based on secondary data.Data are collected from Nepal Rastra Bank, Trade promotion centre , Central Bureau of Statistics,Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce and Supplies. The trend analysis covers the period from FY 2000/01 to FY 2010/11.The volume of export was Rs.26,030.20 million in FY 2000/01 and reached to Rs.38952.70 million in FY 2010/11. The volume of import was Rs.54700.90 million in FY2000/01 and reached to Rs.239,831.90 million in FY 2010/11.The percent share export and India on total trade of Nepal was found to be 46.8 percent and 39.1 percent respectively 2000/01. Similarly the percent share of export and import in respect in the total trade between Nepal and India was realized 65.5 percent and 57.6 percent respectively for the year 2009/10. The share of export to India on total export was realized as 67.0 percent in the year 2010/11. Similarly the share of import from India on total import of Nepal came to be 66.91 percent in the year 2010/11. This reveals that share was import from India is following the increasing trend. Nepal is an underdeveloped country like other LDCs. She is facing the problem. It cannot uplift the economic situation automatically. She needs the support of other countries. India a great growing economic powerhouse of the world can be of great helps in its development. The major prospects of in do-Nepal trade are: Hydro resources, Tourism, Education, and communication technology, Nepal India a joint venture initiative etc. And the major problems of Nepal-India trade are:land lockedness, trade deficit inadequate market, problems related to transit,production bottlenecks,and foreign economic policy constraints.Item A comparative study on income and consumption structure of Phulasi VDC of Ramechhap district(2014) Khadka, Madhab; Rudra Prasad GautamNot availableItem Contribution of Indian aid to economic development of Nepal (1990/91 to 2013/14)(2016) Marasini, Ishori Prasad; Yogesh RanjitNot availableItem A study on Remittance income in Phoksing VDC of Gulmi district(2013) Sapkota, Pashupati; Sohan Kumar KarnaNot availableItem Role of commercial Banks in the economic growth of Nepal(2015) Thapa, Balkrishna; Tara Prasad BhusalThis study investigates the role of commercial banks in the economic growth of Nepal over the period 1975 to 2012. The main objective of this study was to examine the trend and pattern of GDP and credit of the commercial banks, to explore the relationship between Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and credit among increased number of commercial banks and to study and analyzed total deposit collection and deposit utilization of commercial banks in Nepal. Banks play vital role in the economic growth of a country. They accumulate the idle saving of the different of the people and make them available for investment. They also create new demand deposits in the process of granting loans and purchasing investment securities. Commercial banks play and important and active role in the economic growth of a country; if banking system in a country effective, efficient and disciplined, it brings a rapid growth in a various sector of economy. This study employed the regression analysis. The independent variables includes credit (C r ) made by commercial banks and one period lagged GDP (GDP t-1 ). The dependent variable includes nominal GDP in producer’s price, which measured of nation’s economic performance as economic growth. The major findings of this study have focused on contribution of commercial banks credit to the GDP and economic growth of Nepal. The empirical result shows that the value of lagged GDP and value of credit of commercial banks have positive effects on economic growth of Nepal represented by the GDP. This result test on F test in both 5 percent and 1 percent level of significance, which is statistically significant. Therefore, it recommended that the policy maker should make policies to enhance and establish banking system in every part of economy because banking sector is significantly contributing in the economic growth of Nepal.Item Socio-Economic cotribution of foreign employment (A case study of Siddhipur VDC, Lalitpur district)(2010) Rajkarnikar, Rashmee; Bijay ShreshthaMigration of people from one place to another is a usual phenomenon since the beginning of human civilization. The migration in the beginning was for the sake of food and exploring new places for security purpose. But gradually the migration took the shape in diverse forms and now has become a very essential and common in each and every corner of the world. Three key factors are driving migration and will continue to fuel this kind of movement for many years. They are i) the "pull" of changing demographics and labour market needs in many industrialized countries; ii) the "push" of population, unemployment and crisis pressures in less developed countries; and iii) established inter-country networks based on family, culture and history. Migration and foreign employment has become a way of life to many educated youth of the country. The number of people migrated for foreign employment in Nepal, till mid- March 2009 is recorded as 1,432,224. The migration has concentrated in the Gulf countries (more than 65.14%) and maximum being in Malaysia (31.82%). Though the foreign employment in Nepal is a decades old issue, there is no authentic statistics in terms of number involved in it. Beside that there is serious lack of data regarding real contribution of remittance in the national and local community level and lacks proper information relating to the utilization of remittance and its impact on socio-economic condition of the household and community at the origin of foreign migration. And the facts regarding the changes brought in the gender role and empowerment of migrant's wives due to the foreign employment is little known. There is lack of individual level information of the dependents of the foreign employee in terms of added responsibility and assumption of changed role. Therefore, this study on Socio-economic Contribution of Foreign Employment - A Case Study of Siddhipur VDC, Lalitpur District, was carried out with the general objective of this study is to analyze and examine the socio-economic consequences of foreign employment on the national economy and household level. The followings are the specific objectives of the study. o to assess economic contribution of foreign employment on national and household level; o to analyze the changes in the gender role; and o to study the socio-economic empowerment of the migrant's wives. To fulfill the above mentioned objectives, as a methodology of the study, both primary and secondary data and information are considered. Standard questionnaire was prepared and interviews were conducted in Siddhipur VDC. A data collection technique was chosen in accordance with the level of understanding likely to arise from their use. For analyzing contribution of foreign employment (Remittance) on National economy, secondary information was reviewed. Collected data were stratified, tabulated and analyzed in appropriate and purposive ways. A computerized SPSS program was used to show the interrelation between remittance and national economic growth using regression analysis. The world scenario shows that, international migrant remittances have become an important source of external finance in developing countries. Remittances had generated a positive effect on the economy through various channels such as savings, investment, growth, consumption, and poverty and income distribution. At the national level, remittances had contributed significantly to the GDP. At the community level, remittances had created multiplier effects in domestic economy, producing employment opportunities and spurring new economic and social infrastructures and services, especially where effective structures and institutions have been set up to pool and direct remittances. The poverty reducing and income distribution effect of remittances is also significant. In many countries, a large portion of remittances are invested in real estate, purchasing houses, or other investments. Remittances had also fuelled inflation, disadvantage the tradable sector by appreciating the real exchange rate, and reduce labour market participation rates as receiving households opt to live off of migrant's transfers rather than by working. Moreover, remittance's contribution to growth and poverty had reduced the incentives for implementing sound macroeconomic policy or to institute any needed structural reforms. In Nepal, income from remittance has increased to Rs. 188.0 billions during mid Maymid June 2008. It is widely believed that official records for the remittance economy represent just the tip of the iceberg; particularly as most remittances are transferred informally. The official record shows a dramatic increment in the incoming remittances. Despite the huge trade deficit, the country is having surplus in the current account because of the growing remittances. The data gives the glimpse of GDP from the year 2000/01 till 2008/09 and the corresponding remittance received. It was found that, during the year 2000/01 share of remittance in GDP was 2.22%. This share reached to 17.04% percent in 2007/08 and in 2008/09 it has reached 20%. On an average, the share of remittance to GDP was 11.21 percent during the review period from 2000 to 2009. World Human Development Report, 2009 claims that, relative size of remittance inflows as percentage of GDP is 15.5% Three regressions were run in SPSS programme to examine the contribution of remittance to GDP. It shows that, remittance income and EAP appear to be the most relevant variables to raise real GDP in Nepal. The GFCF and other items have also significant impact on increasing real GDP in Nepal. Similarly, this study also focused on the contribution of the out migration / foreign employment at the household level. For the purpose, Siddhipur Village Development Committee (VDC) has been chosen to quantify the exact contribution of foreign employment on the household income, changes in the gender role, and socioeconomic empowerment. Physical development has been one of the positive outcomes of the migration (foreign employment) in Siddhipur VDC. Behavioral changes are slow to come by and usually take a generation or more to become visible. Foreign employment has helped to increase the economic conditions of the people of the Siddhipur village. It was Page xvi observed that, remittance money is spent in maintenance of houses, construction of new buildings and purchase of land. All these investments are considered unproductive investment in economic terms. Social impact of migration could be considered indirect impact of migration. Such impact can be seen in the women groups of the family. The absence of husband, not only cause hardship to the women, it also bought opportunities. As a problem among the migrant's wife, loneliness was more serious than anything else. The study had also explored the changes in role of women folks in the country of origin due to husband going abroad for foreign employment. It was observed that majority of the husband's responsibility like assisting in harvesting, household cash management, representing social organizations etc. shifted to the wife of the migrants after husband went abroad. The study further focused on the socio-economic empowerment of the migrant's wives in the Siddhipur VDC. The four key elements of empowerment - i) Access to information; ii) Awareness about the basic rights; iii) Efforts made for capacity building; and iv) Decision making were assessed in the process of the studied. To conclude, remittances had generated a positive effect on the economy through various channels such as savings, investment, growth, consumption, and poverty and income distribution. Though, it has positive impact, its major contribution is visible at the household and community level only. It has not created socio-economic impact and long term development of the country due to lack of strategic planning for the utilization of remittance. For the purpose, policies and plans based on updated information on migration are required.Item Impact of microfinance program of NESDO on economic empowerment of women (a case study of Devisthan VDC Parbat district, Nepal)(2014) Shrestha, Sandhya; Kushum ShakyaNot availableItem Impact of out migration of labour on agriculture production: a case study of Hansapur VDC of Gorkha district(2014) Paneru, Chhabilal; Dilli Ram SubediThis study entitled" Impact of out Migration of Labor on Agriculture Production: a case study of Hansapur VDC of Gorkha District" has been carried out in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in Economics. The study analyzed the effect on labour migration in study area. General objective of this study is to analyze the effects of out labour migration in agriculture production and specific objectives are to identify the factors influencing the decision to migrate by type and study the effect of labor out migration on household agriculture production Most of the young age population goes in out labour migration which create problem in agriculture sector. For short time, labour outmigration have improved the livelihood of the villagers, and increase in agriculture production capacity by manage the distribution of agriculture productive land but in long time it will have negative effect in agriculture production. There is no machine to cultivate in mountain area. Human labour is only the means of cultivation. Out lbaour migration reduce the human labour which create problem in cultivation. Due to seasonal cultivation there should finish agriculture work in time. Lack of sufficient labour is difficult. So out labour migration directly effect on farming and creates some difficult on social harmony. This study saw that, there are both negative and positive impact of outmigration of labouron agriculture production. Throughout the increase of the income level some out migrantfamily can buy the agriculture land, it will increase the agriculture production. But inother side deficiency of labour, increase the baron agriculture land and decrease the agriculture production and livestock farming.Item Problems and prospects of tourism in Nepal (A case study of Lumbini Area) Rupandehi, District(2013) Chaudhari, Shyam Sunder; Sanjaya Bahadur SinghNot availableItem Socio-Economic impact of tourism (A case study of Lumbini)(2013) Yadaw, Rakesh Kumar; Resham Bahadur ThapaNot availableItem Socio-economic status of women in tharu community (a case study of Dhanaury VDCof Dang district)(2016) Basnet, Balaram; Rashmi RajkarnikarNot availableItem Impact of Remittance on investment (A case study of salleri-VDC of Okhaldhunga District(2015) Chaulagain, Krishna Prasad; Ram Khelawan ShahNot availableItem Contribution of rural women in household income in Hemja VDC of Kaski, District(2013) Tripathi, Sangita; Madhavi Singh ShahNot available in fulltextItem Trend of public debt and its effects on Nepalese Economic(2016) Shahi, Sher Bahadur; Sanjay Bahadur SinghNot availableItem Socio-economic role of Baghabhairab multipurpose co-operative Ltd. on women, Kirtipur(2016) Rimal, Ganga Prasad; Yogesh RangitNot availableItem Impact of micro credit programs on standard of living of the people of Tikapur municipality(2016) Bhattarai, Anuja; R. K. Shah