In focus
Presentation at the Second LDC Future Forum
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.
Inputs on Nepal-Bangladesh trade to policymakers
At the invitation of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies (MoICS), Government of Nepal, Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, SAWTEE, on 6 February 2024 gave a research-based talk on “Nepal-Bangladesh trade: opportunities and challenges” in the presence of the commerce secretary, the industry secretary, and joint secretaries, under-secretaries and officers of the ministry.
Lecture in a training programme for policymakers
Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, SAWTEE, delivered a lecture on the Nepali economy and international trade issues to officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), Government of Nepal, in Lalitpur on 30 January 2024 as part of a training programme organized by Agriculture Information and Training Centre, MoALD.
Presentation on ginger trade
Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, SAWTEE, presented on Nepal’s ginger trade at "International Workshop on Development and Promotion of Ginger Trade in Asia" held in Kathmandu on 26 January 2024. It was jointly organized by the Center for Agricultural Infrastructure Development and Mechanization Promotion (CAIDMP) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) and Nepal Agricultural Economics Society (NAES). The audience included MoALD officials, agriculture economists, and private sector representatives, including exporters.
Workshop for journalists in Karnali Province
On January 22, 2024, SAWTEE, in collaboration with the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ-Surkhet), conducted a media workshop for economic journalists in Surkhet, Karnali Province. The main objective of the programme was to enhance the capacity of media professionals in reporting on topics such as balance of payments, Nepal-India trade, and Nepal-Bangladesh trade.
Lecture on international trade issues to government officials
Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, SAWTEE delivered a lecture on the Nepali economy and international trade issues facing it at the “Policy Lab-based Training for Engaging Trade Policy Making for Government Officials” organized by WTO, WTO Chairs Programme and KUSOM (Kathmandu University School of Management) Policy Lab at KUSOM, Lalitpur on 22 January 2024. The audience comprised government officials, and economics and management students and teachers.
Presentation in a session on SDGs
Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, SAWTEE, presented at a session on “Rethinking Ways to Attain SDGs in South Asian Countries in the Context of the Ongoing Global Challenges”, organized in New Delhi on 13 January 2024 by SANEM and the Institute of Human Development at the IHD Global Conclave on “Advancing Human Development in the Global South”, 11-13 Jan 2024.
Inputs to 16th Plan of Government of Nepal
Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, participated in a workshop organized by the National Planning Commission (NPC), Government of Nepal on 10 January to get inputs from experts on the draft sixteenth development plan with a focus on the themes of LDC graduation, the Sustainable Development Goals and green economy. Dr. Kharel’s inputs covered issues such as rules of origin, industrialization strategy, revenue/tax policy, service sector, the TRIPS Agreement, free trade and preferential trade agreements, SDGs 8 and 9, export-oriented FDI, fiscal space and resource mobilization. The attendees from the NPC included the vice-chairperson, the secretary, a joint secretary, under secretaries and officers.
Dialogue between information technology stakeholders and the High-Level Committee for Tax System Reform
South Asia Watch on Trade Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) organized a discussion between the High-Level Committee for Tax System Reform and businesses and experts from Nepal’s information technology (IT) industry on 3 January 2024 at SAWTEE office. The committee, chaired by former minister and finance secretary Vidyadhar Mallik, received inputs on opportunities, problems, and changes essential for accelerating the growth of Nepal’s IT sector.Read More
Inputs to future directions of BIMSTEC
Dr. Paras Kharel, Executive Director, SAWTEE, participated in a policy dialogue organized by Policy Research Insitute, a Government of Nepal think tank, on 28 December 2023 in Kathmandu to provide inputs to Nepal’s nominee to the Eminent Persons’ Group on the Future Directions of BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation), Mr. Durga Prasad Bhattarai.
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Featured events
Discussion programme on public debt
2023-09-01
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Discussion programme on regional trade
2023-09-01
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Workshop for Economic Journalists
2023-06-30
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SAWTEE in Media
- Nepal awaits revival of key US trade preference scheme
- नेपाल–भारत व्यापार घाटा कम गर्न उत्पादन तथा उत्पादकत्वमा जोड
- नेपाल–भारत व्यापार घाटा कम गर्न उत्पादन तथा उत्पादकत्वमा जोड
- Nepal loses on auto-renewal of trade treaty with India
- प्रतिवद्धतामा उतारचढाव, खुद लगानी बढ्योप्रतिवद्धतामा उतारचढाव, खुद लगानी बढ्यो
- नीति खेलाएर नाफा खाने प्रवृत्ति रहेसम्म अर्थतन्त्र सुध्रिँदैन
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