WASHINGTON, March 28, 2025—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a financing package of $150 million for Nepal’s Third Bridges Improvement and Maintenance Program (BIMP-III) to ...

KATHMANDU, June 3, 2025—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors discussed the new 7-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Nepal on May 29, 2025. The CPF focuses on the fundamentals of job ...

“There’s been a really remarkable transformation in the uptake of electric vehicles,” says David Sislen, the World Bank country director for Nepal, Maldives, and Sri Lanka.

A World Bank study finds that switching from biomass and LPG to electric cooking in Nepal is economically beneficial, ...

Air pollution has emerged as the biggest environmental health risk in Nepal, slashing the average life expectancy by 3.4 years and contributing to approximately 26,000 premature deaths each year ...

KATHMANDU — Nepal is set to receive $45 million under a World Bank program rewarding it for protecting its forests, but the communities on the frontlines of that effort could miss out ...

Nepal’s capital Kathmandu is one of the most polluted cities in the world. But it’s also one of the fastest growing markets for EVs: Nepal’s electric cars now outsell new fossil-fueled vehicles.