{"id":37,"date":"2026-04-01T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:23:30","slug":"132000-jobs-at-risk-as-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/132000-jobs-at-risk-as-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"132,000 jobs at risk as Nepal graduates from ‘least developed status’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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132,000 jobs at risk as Nepal graduates from ‘least developed status’<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Updated: 2026-04-01 09:54<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women at a wool factory prepare to weigh the purified wool to produce handicrafts in 2023. NEWSCOM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nepal may lose 132,000 existing jobs \u2014 about half of them held by women \u2014 and incur nearly $1 billion in economic losses over five years following its graduation from Least Developed Country, or LDC, to a developing country in November 2026, a report unveiled on March 16 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The job losses \u2014 67,000 among men and 65,000 among women \u2014 would largely stem from export declines linked to the end of LDC-specific trade benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report, Employment Impact Assessment on Nepal’s LDC Graduation, released by the International Labour Organization, or ILO, warns that both exports and jobs are at risk and urges Nepal to prepare for a smooth transition. It says that to offset potential income and employment losses, Nepal will need to increase investments and strengthen its economic competitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

132,000 jobs at risk as Nepal graduates from ‘least developed status’ Updated: 2026-04-01 09:54 Nepal may lose 132,000 existing jobs \u2014 about half of them held by women \u2014 and incur nearly $1 billion in economic losses over five years following its graduation from Least Developed Country, or LDC, to a developing country in November … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","tag-000-jobs-at-risk-as-nepal","tag-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}