Binod Atreya

With Nepal Infrastructure Bank, Nepal will have a special financial institution to act as a catalyst for funding, promoting and interfacing infrastructural space

Nepal needs to remove legal barriers such as difficult taxation and unclear policies in order to encourage foreign investment

Though government and the central bank are committed to enhancing financial inclusion through digitization of banking services, its pace is slow in Nepal

The study reveals that a key barrier to take-up of financial services is affordability, mainly due to irregularity and unpredictability of income

The author is an Executive Director at Nepal Rastra Bank and oversees its Micro-Finance Promotion & Supervision Department