and he flexes muscles in 65kg category (Credit Image: Udipt Singh Chhetry)

Take that, India!

Chandan Sapkota

Yet according to Chandan Sapkota’s latest post this steady increase is kosher (you would love to see that for your investment fund):

Third highest remittance inflows (% of GDP) to Nepal in 2012

According to the latest Migration and Development Brief No.22, official remittance inflows to Nepal reached 24.7% of GDP in 2012, which makes Nepal the third largest remittance recipient in the world. Migrants remitted an estimated US$5.2 billion to Nepal in 2013 (equivalent to about 25% of GDP). The amount of remittance outflows was just US$50.3 million in 2012.

full post here

Exporting your future across the kalo pani serves the country’s balance sheet well and it seems, those returning in the box will keep Pashupatinath pretty busy over the coming years.

Republica

In-depth analysis of Nepal’s export competitiveness

and it is mind-boggling how an anachronistic movement could bring a country on a steep slope ever since. Here the exports curve of Nepal when the Maoists movement came into full swing.

Source: Nepal Rastra Bank via C. Sapkota

Meet Sunita (full name withheld adhering to our strict journalistic ethos, Amen!), the embodiment of Women Power 1.0 Nepal.

While neighboring Bhutan is still steeped in last-century technology like generating power from water, Nepal did not hesitate to step into cold water and show the world that hydropower is just deja vu. Instead, it knew it could fully rely as a Hindu country on harnessing its women.

Introducing WP1.0N to an incredulous world, stunning the aid blokes of SNV, DFID, GTZ and what not, Nepal is now the hot topic on energy congresses around the world and beyond preaching the evangelism of 100% Women Grid Empowerment.

We apologise for any distress and embarrassment our article has caused to Mr. Sushil Koirala and we have agreed to pay him damages in the form of a free dhaal bhaat and a lap dance.

We would like to reiterate that we adhere to the strictest journalistic code of ethics and the writer of said article has been sacked.

This is a photo of the one and only and real Mr. Sushil Koirala courtesy nepalnews.com.

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In addition we have received notice from the Indian gentleman whose photo was featured in this unfortunate article that he wishes to have his name printed.

We gladly grant his wish. It was Mr. Manmohan Singh who gave the exuberant thumbs up.

Nepali Congress has acted fast and released a photo showing the new PM undergoing in-depth health checks. The result: PM Koirala is fit as a fiddle.

He is a learned Brahman and holds a dotorate in autodidactism. Leader Koirala who is dedicated to principles of nationality, democracy, populism, social autocracy, fringe benefit capitalism, religious anachronism, gender-neutral Proselytism and socialism strongly believes that consensus, cooperation and reconciliation is the best way to seeking a solution to every problems and is applying this in practice and beyond.

He pledged to give a nation a new constitution within a year if celestial alignments permitting and take the nation on right track.

Mr. Koirala has a vast trove of international experiences and was assigned on party works in the European countries after the death of popular leader BP Koirala. He returned home from Europe and dedicated himself in the movement against the autocratic Tantrayana system.

His contribution to the People’s Movement I in 1990 was unparalleled as he refused to accept any ministerial posts when approached for the same that time, rather preferred to work for the party, holding the party work above the ministerial post.

Leader Koirala knows the planet north to south, east to west, up and beyond and has visited Great Britain, the United States of America, France, Antarctica, the Peleponnes, China, the Bronx, India and European countries.

Mr. Koirala is polyglot and speaks one language fluently.

an Indian citizen giving big thumbs up

International response has been overwhelmingly positive.

Nepali Times

Nepal is in the final hot planning stages to build the first subway train system in Chitwan, or rather underneath the jungle of Chitwan.

Sources who wish to remain anonymous confirmed that star architect Norman Foster will design the project. “I am fostering this idea since some years and feel, that now is the right time as Nepal is on a development rampage, so to say,” Mr. Foster was quoted.

It is said to be the very first rhino-trample-proof subway system in the world and will have a midway exit at the super-lush resort of Tiger Tops. Tiger Mountain CEO Robin Marston pulled all diplomatic stops to make sure that his companies’ cocktail-slurping clientele get the service and convenience they deserve. “Tiger Mountain is a mission-driven company whose corporate values and mantra strive to combine nature, progress and sustainable tourism in one corporate dharma,” said Mr. Marston.

If we counted correctly, it were the fifteenths elections in half as many years. But that is not the point. We would like to draw your esteemed attention to grrreat developments since the Nepali pipuls thought that democracy might be a pretty good idea instead of having a bloke sitting in a pompous shack for decades. So here goes.

H/T Chandan Sapkota

This graph shows that it takes some getting used to democracy from 2000 till mid 2004. But then, oh boy, we have lift off. Something odd seemed to happen in mid 2006, yet this would not be Nepal if it would not power on northwards.

Slight dip as all over the world from third quarter 2008 for obvious reasons. But this is only a consolidation dip. Never heard of this? Well, now you have.

The graph shows of course much much more. Not only does democracy work as an opportunity to move your legs  usually every four years and as an incubator for economic growth. No, this graph shows how Nepal has achieved it:

By sending out into the world its youngest and brightest to work in balmy and qatari conditions with deferred payments, early retirement in a box and other prospects.

Keep going, Nepal!

H/T Bombay Electric