About Nepal Context
A publication about how business, investment and regulation actually work in Nepal — built so that every claim can be checked.
Last updated 26 August 2026
Why this exists
Someone deciding whether to put money, staff or a subsidiary into Nepal has to answer a long series of specific questions. What can a foreign investor own. Which body approves it. What does it cost and how long does it take. What is the tax position. How does money get out again. What happens if it goes wrong.
The answers exist. They are held inside professional firms, spread across regulator circulars and gazette notices in two languages, and — increasingly — restated across dozens of unattributed web pages that agree with each other and cite nothing. The result is a subject where confident writing is abundant and checkable writing is scarce.
Nepal Context is an attempt at the second thing. Not more coverage of Nepal, but coverage you can audit: sourced to a named instrument, dated, labelled by legal status, and honest about what is unsettled.
What we publish
A hundred evergreen guides across eleven clusters — business environment and market entry; companies and licensing; banking, payments and foreign exchange; foreign investment; tax and compliance; technology; energy and infrastructure; tourism and aviation; capital markets; insurance; and exit, disputes and repatriation. Alongside them, dated analysis kept visibly separate from the guides, and a register of every source we rely on.
Who writes it
At launch, everything is bylined Nepal Context Editorial Desk. We would rather publish an honest institutional byline than invent authors or borrow credentials. The contributor and reviewer system exists from day one and is published here; as named writers and Nepal-qualified expert reviewers join, they will appear on the pages they worked on, with the role they performed.
Where a guide has been through expert review, the reviewer's discipline is recorded on the page even while the reviewer is unnamed. Where it has not, the page says that too.
How we are funded
Nepal Context is self-funded at launch. It carries no advertising, takes no referral fees, accepts no payment for coverage or placement, and does not operate a directory of service providers. Nobody can buy a mention, a link, or a favourable framing.
The models we consider compatible with the position are subscriptions to briefings and research, sales of research reports, and licensing of content to institutions. Lead generation is not compatible with it, and neither is sponsored editorial. We state this publicly so that if it ever changes, the change is visible rather than quiet.
What we are not
- Not a law firm or advisory business. We publish general information. We do not act for anyone, and nothing here is legal, tax, financial or investment advice.
- Not an investment promotion agency. We describe constraints as plainly as we describe opportunities.
- Not a broker or intermediary. We do not introduce, place or transact.
- Not a lobbying platform. We do not campaign for or against policy positions.
- Not a news wire. Our core is evergreen reference; analysis is a separate, dated stream.
Corrections
We will get things wrong. When we do, the correction is logged publicly, dated, and permanent, with the previous position stated — see the corrections log. If you have found an error, particularly if you can point to the primary source, please tell us.
Citing us
Researchers, journalists and institutions are among the readers we are building for. Guides are stably URLed and carry a last-verified date; cite the page, the date you accessed it, and where possible go to the primary source we cite rather than to us. Reuse terms are on the terms page.