Investigations
Natural calamities and its impacts on Nepal's economy
It took just minutes for a transboundary surge of ice, water, and rock to erase decades of development along the Bhote Koshi river system.As the ruins of Rasuwa sit frozen in time, a country that emits almost zero greenhouse gases faces an unimaginable NPR 723 billion recovery bill. How did a localized mountain anomaly morph into a macroeconomic catastrophe that a nation must bear alone?
