Tuesday, November 23, 2021
In the busy streets of Male, the capital of Maldives, Aminath Waheed picks up passengers, blazing a trail as the city’s only female taxi driver. In the hills of Nepal, 30-year-old Madhukala Adhikari works as a mobile mason, helping families rebuild...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Skilled in knitting and weaving clothes and other handmade items, Kalpana Shrestha from Kathmandu, often helped her friends to make woollen clothes.
Word about the quality of her well-knitted garments soon spread, bringing her more requests, and from...
Friday, November 27, 2020
Labour rights groups doubt government, employers are committed to implementing the scheme and demand informal workers and self-employed be included
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Three in every five employees of both formal and informal micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Nepal have lost their jobs as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a study commissioned by the United Nations Development...
Friday, September 13, 2019
The World Bank approved the Youth Employment Transformation Initiative (YETI) Project to support the Government of Nepal in improving employment services and labor market outcomes for Nepali youth. The US$ 120 million project that aims to...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Bridging the gap between students’ transition from school to work is critical for realizing education’s potential in reducing poverty. But if return on education is measured by labor market outcomes, then this link is clearly missing in the case of Nepal...
Sunday, August 5, 2018
The government has proposed to provide up to 120 days’ unemployment allowance per year to those who are jobless in a bid to uphold people’s right to employment enshrined in the constitution.
The government will start providing the allowance...