Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal

Nepal is emerging from a series of crippling shocks. Barely recovered from the devastation and loss wreaked by the earthquakes in April 2015, the country experienced a near total economic seizure between September 2015 and January 2016 as cross-bor...

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Main Author: World Bank Group
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Kathmandu 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26766322/moving-up-ladder-poverty-reduction-social-mobility-nepal-vol-2
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spelling okr-10986-251732021-05-25T08:51:49Z Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal World Bank Group poverty reduction remittances inequality social mobility economic mobility upward mobility urban migration vulnerability Nepal is emerging from a series of crippling shocks. Barely recovered from the devastation and loss wreaked by the earthquakes in April 2015, the country experienced a near total economic seizure between September 2015 and January 2016 as cross-border trade with India came to a halt. The shortages of fuel, raw materials and other essential commodities caused prices to soar, businesses to curtail operations and the economy to register the lowest growth experienced in the last fourteen years. This report attempts to contribute by deepening the understanding of the key elements of the processes that have driven improvements in living standards and identify some of the challenges that lie ahead. This report also performs a careful analysis of the levels as well as the trends in inequality in last two decades in an attempt to understand the economic underpinnings of the demand for inclusion that has so fundamentally shaped Nepal’s contemporary socio-political landscape. Finally, this report also presents some novel insights on social and economic mobility experienced by Nepalis across generations as well as over a lifetime. 2016-10-17T18:34:53Z 2016-10-17T18:34:53Z 2016-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26766322/moving-up-ladder-poverty-reduction-social-mobility-nepal-vol-2 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25173 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Kathmandu Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study Economic & Sector Work South Asia Nepal
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remittances
inequality
social mobility
economic mobility
upward mobility
urban migration
vulnerability
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remittances
inequality
social mobility
economic mobility
upward mobility
urban migration
vulnerability
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Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal
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description Nepal is emerging from a series of crippling shocks. Barely recovered from the devastation and loss wreaked by the earthquakes in April 2015, the country experienced a near total economic seizure between September 2015 and January 2016 as cross-border trade with India came to a halt. The shortages of fuel, raw materials and other essential commodities caused prices to soar, businesses to curtail operations and the economy to register the lowest growth experienced in the last fourteen years. This report attempts to contribute by deepening the understanding of the key elements of the processes that have driven improvements in living standards and identify some of the challenges that lie ahead. This report also performs a careful analysis of the levels as well as the trends in inequality in last two decades in an attempt to understand the economic underpinnings of the demand for inclusion that has so fundamentally shaped Nepal’s contemporary socio-political landscape. Finally, this report also presents some novel insights on social and economic mobility experienced by Nepalis across generations as well as over a lifetime.
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title Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal
title_short Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal
title_full Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal
title_fullStr Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Moving Up the Ladder : Poverty Reduction and Social Mobility in Nepal
title_sort moving up the ladder : poverty reduction and social mobility in nepal
publisher World Bank, Kathmandu
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26766322/moving-up-ladder-poverty-reduction-social-mobility-nepal-vol-2
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