## Nepal: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, April 6, 2020_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 6, 2020
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports

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### Study scope and methodology
- Measures how Nepal’s households change expenditure patterns and labor supply in response to remittances.
- Data source: Nepal Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey—2016.
- Empirical method: propensity score matching.
- Pages: 27; Volume: 2020; Issue: 097; Series: Country Report No. 2020/097; Stock No: 1NPLEA2020002; ISBN: 9781513539768; ISSN: 1934-7685.
- Publication date: April 6, 2020.

### Stylized facts on migration and remittance reliance
- Provides stylized facts on migrant workers and remittance-recipient households (HH).
- Reliance on remittances, both at the macro and household levels, makes Nepal highly vulnerable to shifts that could diminish remittance inflows.
- The slowdown in growth of remittances has been significant since 2016, owing to weak economic performance in major remittance-sending economies and less outward migration.

### Key findings on expenditure patterns
- Remittances have supported greater consumption of productive goods, including:
  - durable goods,
  - education,
  - health.
- Analysis based on propensity score matching indicates positive effects of remittances on household consumption composition toward productive categories.

### Key findings on labor supply and participation
- The study analyzes the effect of remittances on labor market participation of left behind household heads using propensity score matching.
- Results show remittances do not discourage labor supply of remittance-receiving family members.

### Subjects and keywords addressed
- Subjects: Balance of payments, Fintech, Income, Infrastructure, Labor, Labor supply, Migration, National accounts, Population and demographics, Remittances, Technology.
- Keywords: Asia and Pacific, CR, East Asia, expenditure pattern, Fintech, fintech payment, Fintech payment method, Global, Income, Infrastructure, invoice payment, ISCR, Labor supply, Migration, remittance, remittance recipient, remittance-recipient household, Remittances, South Asia, Southeast Asia.

*Source: Nepal: Selected Issues, April 6, 2020 (IMF Staff Country Report No. 2020/097).*

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