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Financial sector performance impressive in FY 1999/2000 (Kathmandu Post, 27/12/2000)

Financial Sector Reforms: Crying Need Of The Hour, by Uttam Maharjan (Rising Nepal, 25/12/2000)

Government And Business Private Ventures And Public Vigilance, by Madan Lamsal (Spotlight, 15/12/2000)

Nepal, IMF conclude crucial negotiation, by Ameet Dhakal (Kathmandu Post, 30/11/2000)

Tea policy of Nepal : Is it timely? by Sanjay Prakash (Kathmandu Post, 29/11/2000)

Umbrella policy to lure more private investment, by Binaj Gurubacharya (Kathmandu Post, 23/11/2000)

Govt aims to increase tea production to 46.1M kg (Rising Nepal, 18/11/2000)
see also editorial The Brew That Cheers (Rising Nepal, 20/11/2000)

Govt to control illegal inflow of tea (Kathmandu Post, 18/11/2000)

Economic Liberalisation & Globalisation: How Suitable In Nepal?, by Tanka Raj Niraula (Rising Nepal, 11/11/2000)

Impact of Financial Liberalisation, by Bhubanesh Pant (Kathmandu Post, 08/11/2000)

The End Result Of Liberalization Policy Is Not Encouraging (Spotlight, 20/10/2000)
Interview with Sabin Lal Shrestha

Morass of foreign direct investment in Nepal, by Sushil R Mathema (Kathmandu Post, 20/10/2000)

Govt to announce new program for farmers’ relief: Cabinet yet to take concrete decision (Kathmandu Post, 16/10/2000)

Nepal could tax rice import, lift ban on exports (Kathmandu Post, 14/10/2000)

Govt expenditure decelerating (Rising Nepal, 04/10/2000)

Good governance is like climate (Business Age, August 2000)
Interview with Jyoti Lamsal, former prseident of FNCCI

Making Nepal Globally Competitive, by Navin Dahal (Business Age, August 2000)

Tripartism And Social Dialogue Must For Solving Disputes, by Narayan Manandhar (Rising Nepal, 20/08/2000)

A system that is guided by stupidity, there is little room for logic, reasoning and rationality (Telegraph, 16/08/2000)
Interview with Narayan Manandhar

Govt's failure responsible for slow economy (Kathmandu Post, 21/07/2000)

Multiparty politics and economic growth, by Gyanendra Pradhan (Kathmandu Post, 04/07/2000)

Democracy without economic liberty is meaningless (Telegraph, 14/06/2000)
Interview with Prof. Dr. Prof.Dr Mahendra Singh, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur

Reforming Financial Sector, by Krishna Shrestha (Sunday Despatch, 11/06/2000)

Non-inclusive approach to WTO, by Ratnakar Adhikari (Kathmandu Post, 15/05/2000)

Economic Reform Process: The Need To Continue, by Gandhi Raj Kafle (Rising Nepal, 04/05/2000)

Economic Development and Good Governance, by T.V Ramaswamy (Telegraph, 26/04/2000)

Second phase of reforms to spur economic growth, by Bijaya Ghimire (Kathmandu Post, 17/04/2000)

Promoting economic diplomacy, by Mohan Lohani (Kathmandu Post, 13/04/20000)

Price hike of dairy products in the offing, by Sudeep Shrestha (Kathmandu Post, 02/04/2000)

Globalisation good for Nepal: Experts (Rising Nepal, 29/03/2000)

Globalization yet to deliver goods in Nepal (Kathmandu Post, 29/03/2000)

Govt expenditure rises, budget deficit widens (Kathmandu Post, 25/03/2000)

Monetary policy : Is there a choice?, by Dr Raghab D Pant (Kathmandu Post, 22/03/2000)

Industrial policies still shrouded in confusion, by Ram Sharan Sedhai (Kathmandu Post, 15/03/2000)

Financial reform and cooperatives, by Sushil R. Mathema (Kathmandu Po9st, 15/03/2000)

Taking stock: missed opportunity for internal reform, by Hari Uprety (Rising Nepal, 14/03/2000)

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Govt expenses go up (Rising Nepal, 01/03/2000)

Can monetary policy foster economic growth?, by Nara Bahadur Thapa (Kathmandu Post, 26/02/2000)

Koirala urges review in economic policies, by Bhaskar Sharma and Sudeep Shrestha (Kathmandu Post, 17/02/2000)

UNCTAD and Nepal: some observations, by Hari Pokharel (Kathmandu Post, 10/02/2000)

Nepal has made good progress in the last decades (Spotlight, 4 February 2000)
Interview with Kul Chandra Gautam, newly appointed Deputy Director General at UNICEF

The govt. should consider IT as a prioritized economic sector (Spotlight, 4 February 2000)
Interview with Dinesh Chapagain, Chairman of MISSION, a non-profit organization dedicated for promotion of information-technology-based management system in Nepal

Govt fixes farm workers’ wages (The Rising Nepal, 15 January 2000)

National tea policy in the offing (The Kathmandu Post, 15 January 2000)

Attribute growth to host of factors, by Ameet Dhakal (The Kathmandu Post, 15 January 2000)

Economic horoscope of Nepal, by T.R. Basyal and T.N. Khanal (The Kathmandu Post, 11 January 2000)

PAC ired at tariff hike bid (The Kathmandu Post, 3 January 2000)

CPC to monitor consumer goods & services, by Bhaskar Sharma (The Kathmandu Post, 30 December 1999)

PM woos Chinese investors (The Kathmandu Post, 28 December 1999)

Essence of economic progress, by Shyam K. Upadhyaya (The Rising Nepal, 26 December 1999)

Telecom tariff hike soon (The Kathmandu Post, 24 December 1999)

Govt to mitigate price rise burden: PM (The Rising Nepal, 23 December 1999)

Price escalation due to extraneous factors, explains PM to House (The Rising Nepal, 21 December 1999)

Price hike irrational: Nepal (The Rising Nepal, 21 December 1999)

Economic policy: need for soul searching, by Govinda Bahadur Thapa (The Kathmandu Post, 18 December 1999)

Fiscal consolidation: an overdue agenda of reforms, by Yuba Raj Khatiwada (The Kathmandu Post, 17 December 1999)

World Bank and ADB are pressing Nepal hard in raising the tariff rate(s) of electricity, telephone and drinking water, by Soorya Lal Amatya (The Telegraph, 15 December 1999)

There is no responsibility towards the nation among our leaders (The Independent, 8 December 1999)
Interview with Badri Pokharel

Labour policy comes under severe criticism (The Kathmandu Post, 8 December 1999)

Whither Nepalese economy?, by Govinda Bahadur Thapa (The Kathmandu Post, 4 December 1999)

Democracy without economic liberty is meaningless and economic liberty without democracy id fruitless, by Mahendra Singh (The Telegraph, 1 December 1999)