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World Bank Warns Decades of Poverty Gains Could Unravel by 2030 as Shocks Multiply
The World Bank says the pattern of risk is growing across sectors and geographies, making effective policy, targeted investment and international cooperation indispensable. Its flagship Global Economic Prospects report, due next week, is expected to offer further analysis of where the world economy stands and where it may be heading in the months ahead — the next marker to watch for how sharply these warnings are reflected in the hard numbers.
Dipesh Ghimire8 Jun, 2026
From Insurance4 min read
From Insurance Vaults to the Trading Floor: 59 to Face Charges as Insurers' Billions Allegedly Fueled Private Share Deals
It is under sections 140 and 141 of that Act that the CIB has recommended prosecution — for misappropriation of insurance funds, insider trading and price manipulation in the securities market — seeking maximum imprisonment, fines and confiscation of the established bigo. For now, these remain charges yet to be tested. Several of the names belong to prominent figures in Nepal's business establishment, and the real measure of the case will be whether it holds up in court against well-resourced defendants — with the presumption of innocence intact until it does.
Dipesh Ghimire8 Jun, 2026
government4 min read
Nepal Finally Swings the Axe on 31 State Bodies — the Real Test Is Whether the Savings Materialize
Ultimately, this is where Nepal's reforms have always been decided — in the gap between announcement and execution. Routing the cull through the budget and accompanying legislation gives it more force than the bare pledges previous governments made and abandoned, which is reason for cautious optimism. But whether the 31 bodies actually wind down rather than linger on paper, whether their people and assets are redeployed, and whether the promised Rs 20 billion ever shows up in the books — that, and not the length of the list, is what will tell whether this time was different.
Dipesh Ghimire8 Jun, 2026
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Why a Stock's Price Falls After a Bonus Share — and Why 'Free Shares' Are Not Really Free
The bottom line is liberating in its simplicity. A bonus share increases the share count, lowers the per-share price and leaves total value unchanged. Lasting wealth in the market comes from a company's earnings actually growing — not from slicing the same pie into thinner pieces. The wise investor reads the arithmetic before chasing the announcement.
Dipesh Ghimire8 Jun, 2026
Money Came Home2 min read
Money Came Home, the System Didn't: Why Returnee Migrants' Businesses Fail
That is why, on returning from abroad, it is essential to bring back more than money — business systems and processes, sound management capacity, the skill to build teams and lead them, and long-term business thinking and planning. Because the future is built not by money alone, but by systems and by thinking. The conclusion is simple: only if you can build a system do you become, in the true sense, an owner rather than a worker. Otherwise, the capital earned abroad risks running dry at home — and the same departure ticket waits to be bought all over again.
Dipesh Ghimire8 Jun, 2026
NEPSE3 min read
Why the Index Can Mislead: How a Handful of Heavyweights Steer NEPSE
The conclusion is simple but liberating: the NEPSE index is a weighted average, and weighted averages have favorites. To read the market well, watch not just the number that moves, but the handful of heavyweights doing the moving.
Dipesh Ghimire5 Jun, 2026
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From the Depths to the White House: What Abraham Lincoln's Defeats Really Teach
So remember this. If love has wounded you, if business has bled you, if life has handed you failure upon failure — that is not the end of the story. History has proven, through this man above almost all others, that the person who walks through the deepest darkness is often the one who reaches the brightest destination. Lincoln's life teaches that success is not the art of never falling; it is the courage to rise after every single fall. Do not blame your circumstances. Accept the struggle. Keep moving. The greatest chapter of your life may not have been written yet.
Dipesh Ghimire5 Jun, 2026
Deposit3 min read
Rs 8 Trillion in the Vault, Few Takers at the Counter: Deposit Milestone Masks a Credit Drought
Until that turn comes, the pattern looks set to persist: deposits climbing, loans crawling, and the central bank vacuuming up the difference. Rs 8 trillion is a number that flatters the system. Money waiting, after all, is not money working.
Dipesh Ghimire5 Jun, 2026
Energy3 min read
Plan Now, Deliver on Time: Energy Minister Puts NEA on the Clock for Budget Implementation
The meeting closed with a timeline. The deputy executive directors informed the minister that a detailed action plan is being prepared for submission to the NEA board by Asar 15 — that is, before the new fiscal year even begins. The sequencing matters: Nepal's chronic implementation failure is the year-end spending rush, in which plans are finalized late and budgets are burned in the final quarter. Front-loading the plan so that execution can start from day one of the fiscal year is the textbook remedy. Whether it works will depend on what no action plan can fully anticipate — procurement delays, land acquisition disputes and the everyday friction of building infrastructure in Nepal. The directives are now on record; from Shrawan onward, the only measure that counts is delivery.
Dipesh Ghimire5 Jun, 2026
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Built by the Storm: Why the Hardest Seasons Produce the Strongest Lives
So when circumstances press down with all their weight, do not surrender to them. Hold your patience. Stay committed to your goal. Keep trying — not occasionally, but relentlessly, especially on the days when effort feels pointless. Because the person who can barely, painfully, stubbornly make it through the worst of times is precisely the person who carries within them the capacity to build the brightest, most successful and most honorable of futures.
Dipesh Ghimire4 Jun, 2026

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All Articles — Page 38

World Bank Warns Decades of Poverty Gains Could Unravel by 2030 as Shocks Multiply

From Insurance Vaults to the Trading Floor: 59 to Face Charges as Insurers' Billions Allegedly Fueled Private Share Deals

Nepal Finally Swings the Axe on 31 State Bodies — the Real Test Is Whether the Savings Materialize

Why a Stock's Price Falls After a Bonus Share — and Why 'Free Shares' Are Not Really Free

Money Came Home, the System Didn't: Why Returnee Migrants' Businesses Fail

Why the Index Can Mislead: How a Handful of Heavyweights Steer NEPSE

From the Depths to the White House: What Abraham Lincoln's Defeats Really Teach

Rs 8 Trillion in the Vault, Few Takers at the Counter: Deposit Milestone Masks a Credit Drought

Plan Now, Deliver on Time: Energy Minister Puts NEA on the Clock for Budget Implementation

Built by the Storm: Why the Hardest Seasons Produce the Strongest Lives

NEPSEtrading

Primary issues

Income & debt

Live market

Read & learn

NEPSE Trading Network

Insights & Analysis

All Articles — Page 38

World Bank Warns Decades of Poverty Gains Could Unravel by 2030 as Shocks Multiply

From Insurance Vaults to the Trading Floor: 59 to Face Charges as Insurers' Billions Allegedly Fueled Private Share Deals

Nepal Finally Swings the Axe on 31 State Bodies — the Real Test Is Whether the Savings Materialize

Why a Stock's Price Falls After a Bonus Share — and Why 'Free Shares' Are Not Really Free

Money Came Home, the System Didn't: Why Returnee Migrants' Businesses Fail

Why the Index Can Mislead: How a Handful of Heavyweights Steer NEPSE

From the Depths to the White House: What Abraham Lincoln's Defeats Really Teach

Rs 8 Trillion in the Vault, Few Takers at the Counter: Deposit Milestone Masks a Credit Drought

Plan Now, Deliver on Time: Energy Minister Puts NEA on the Clock for Budget Implementation

Built by the Storm: Why the Hardest Seasons Produce the Strongest Lives