First person: 'Nepal is ready for its next chapter'.

'In the 1970s, when Nepal was first included in the UN list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), my parents worked as porters carrying food and other items 68 kilometres from the country's only highway to their district of Arghakhanchi.

Fifty years later, the situation in the country is very different. In 2021, Nepal qualified to graduate from the category of 'Least Developed Country' having, for the third time, met the threshold levels on...