Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, SAWTEE, presented on "Nepal’s
prematurely premature de-industrialization and its search for an
industrial policy" in a session at the Second LDC Future Forum in
Helsinki on 6 March 2024. The organizers included the United Nations
Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries,
Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
(UN-OHRLLS), United Nations University World Institute for Development
Economics Research (UN-WIDER), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland,
and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Participants included government officials, researchers and private
sector actors from various least developed countries and development
partners.
