Free weekly Substack summarising Nepal's economic, political and social news, useful background for founders and investors; not startup-specific. Latest issue seen 16 Oct 2026.

US government assessment of Nepal's foreign investment climate covering openness, legal regime, property rights, taxation treaties, labour and corruption; page last published 15 June 2026.

Portulans Institute's Network Readiness Index 2025 profile of Nepal, ranked 107 of 127 economies, with rankings by pillar and sub-pillar for technology, people, governance and impact.

Peer-reviewed literature review in BIC Journal of Management (September 2025, CC BY 4.0) on Nepal's startup ecosystem, covering incubators, public-private partnerships and university links.

Journal article (Kanya Journal, December 2025) analysing Nepal's payment system from mid-July 2022 to mid-July 2025, including wallets, QR payments and a more than 23-fold rise in PSP agents.

ADB's April 2026 outlook with a Nepal analysis PDF; ADB's 10 April 2026 release projects Nepal's growth at 2.7% in FY2026 and 5.0% in FY2027.

UNFPA Nepal page for the National Statistics Office's 614-page results report of the 12th census, released 24 March 2023, with a PDF link and the census data portal.

Journal article (July 2024) using secondary data to map Nepal's agritech startup segments and players, with challenges and policy recommendations; licence terms not stated on the page.

World Bank Microdata Library record for the Nepal sample of the Global Findex 2025 survey, collected May to December 2024, free to cite and use under its public-distribution terms.

IMF press release of 8 June 2026 on Nepal's Article IV consultation and final ECF review, estimating FY2025/26 growth at 3.0% and projecting 5.3% for FY2026/27.

IFC report dated May 2025 on digital financial services in Nepal, opening with a message from the Nepal Rastra Bank governor on digital payments and access to finance.

ITU's ICT Development Index 2026 with PDF report and Excel dataset covering 159 economies; Kathmandu Post (2 July 2026) reports Nepal is ranked again with a score of 68.1.

DataReportal's Digital 2026 Nepal report, published 8 November 2025, with 16.6 million internet users, 32.4 million mobile connections and 14.8 million social media identities as of October 2025.

One-page NRB Payment Systems Department list of licensed PSOs and PSPs in English, current to 2083/03/32 BS (16 July 2026).

ILO study (15 March 2023) mapping the entrepreneurship ecosystems of Kathmandu and Pokhara for young women and men, with obstacles and proposals for stronger support.

ADB and SASEC report (July 2026) on Nepal's digital payments: interoperable payment systems, digital identification, small business adoption, skills gaps and cross-border trade; free PDF available.

Not-for-profit data and statistics portal that describes itself as Nepal's first publicly accessible portal, with documents and time-series records from 1950 onward.

NIPoRe analysis (published 25 June 2024, by Sagun Baba Shrestha) comparing Nepal's startup policy with other countries and tracing how startups entered Nepal's budgets, plans and policies over about a decade.

Official site of Nepal's central bank. Hosts monetary policy documents, bylaws and directives, economic and financial publications, interest and forex rate data, and payment-system and financial-inclusion material.

Nepal Rastra Bank's archive of Financial Stability Reports.

Nepal tech media outlet covering news, gadgets, startups, apps and events; describes itself as Nepal's leading digital tech media company.

Nepali-language tech and startup media platform from Nepal, with an English toggle.

Open Knowledge Nepal's open-data portal hosting free public datasets for Nepal for researchers, journalists, developers and policymakers.

Joint initiative of the Nepal Institute for Policy Research (NIPoRe) and King's College Kathmandu to map, invest in and generate impact from Nepal's startup ecosystem; hosts articles on startup funding and policy.

World Bank's periodic Nepal Development Update, which reports on key economic developments and examines topics of policy significance.

Official site of Nepal's National Statistics Office under the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the national statistical agency's publication and data hub (bilingual).

UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data's Nepal page listing hundreds of humanitarian and crisis-response datasets from dozens of organisations.

World Bank's country data page for Nepal with development indicators, including internet-user share and other series.

Nepal Rastra Bank Payment Systems Department's Payment Systems Oversight Report for FY 2024/25 (63 pages), reviewing the country's payment technology (PayTech) landscape and the central bank's oversight of payment systems.

NSO's Central Data Catalog where users can browse, search and download study metadata and data (microdata) from Nepal's national surveys and censuses.

Tech news site from Nepal covering telecom, apps, startups and gadgets, in Nepali and English.

Nepal Rastra Bank's archive of its Current Macro-Economic and Financial Situation publications.

WIPO's Global Innovation Index 2025, the 18th edition, measuring innovation performance across around 140 economies; the page offers a downloadable Excel dataset.

Business magazine with business news, entrepreneur and leader profiles and policy analysis.

English-language daily's business section.