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Nepal: 2019 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Nepal

April 6, 2020

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Nepal: 2019 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Nepal, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed October 12, 2024

Summary

This 2020 Article IV Consultation focuses on Nepal’s near and medium-term challenges and policy priorities and was prepared before coronavirus disease 2019 became a global pandemic and resulted in unprecedented strains in global trade, commodity and financial markets. During recent years, strong growth in Nepal has been supported by greater political stability, improved electricity supply, and reconstruction activity following the devastating earthquakes in 2015. Additional policies are needed to continue to support inclusive growth, while safeguarding macroeconomic and financial stability. Fiscal policy should remain prudent, and the transition to fiscal federalism carefully managed. Macroprudential measures should remain in place to limit the build-up of financial sector risk. Recent reforms to boost foreign investment need a supportive implementation environment. Strengthening the implementation of monetary policy requires a well-functioning interest rate framework that reduces volatility in short-term interest rates. Less short-term interest rate volatility would support financial market development and improve policy signaling and transmission. The IMF staff emphasizes the need to introduce a standing deposit facility as a first step toward establishing a reliable implementation track record for the interest rate corridor.

Subject: Credit, Economic and financial statistics, External debt, External sector statistics, Financial sector policy and analysis, Money, Public debt, Stress testing

Keywords: Central government deficit, CR, Credit, Credit growth, Current account, External sector statistics, Financing transaction, GDP, Global, Government, ISCR, Liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident, Private sector, R eal GDP growth, Remittance, Remittance inflow, Remittances slowdown, South Asia, Stress testing

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    77

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2020/096

  • Stock No:

    1NPLEA2020001

  • ISBN:

    9781513539751

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685