Raised $4 billion. Time for a new round

There is no better time than now for Finance Minister Wagle to hit the road to showcase his vision for Nepal’s economic prosperity and ask international investors to commit their capital and resources to Nepal.

A decade ago this summer, a 41-year-old economist stood among the architects of one of the fastest, most credible disaster assessments a poor country has ever produced. Nepal’s National Planning Commission (NPC) had one month to answer a pressing question after the 2015 earthquakes killed nearly 9,000 people: How much would it cost to rebuild and could the world be persuaded to pay for it?