Nepal

Helping Nepal Reach Middle-Income Status through SEZs

For the last several decades, Nepal's special economic zone (SEZ) program has intended to promote export-oriented manufacturing to help the country graduate to middle-income status.... Thus, in 2016, the DfID-supported Economic Policy Incubator (EPI) contracted Locus Economica to advise on the Nepal's SEZ program....

Breaking Down Barriers to Investment in Nepal

In 2006-2007, Locus founder and CEO Jean-Paul Gauthier served as a senior advisor on the World Bank / Foreign Investment Advisory Service's (FIAS) Diagnostic of Nepal's Investment Climate. Nepal's Ministry of Industries, Commerce, and Supplies invited the World Bank team to evaluate barriers to investment....