Pulished by: The World Bank Group

To contribute to and advance this critical national discourse and inform policy making in Nepal, the Government of Nepal (GoN) asked the World Bank to prepare this study on youth, migration and entrepreneurship jointly with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Labour and Employment. The study focused on factors that have advanced as well as limited the Government’s youth and entrepreneurship policies and initiatives. It also sought to increase understanding of the situation of migrants out of Nepal, with special emphasis on the impact of overseas labour on the potential for entrepreneurship upon their return, constraints they face in such endeavours and strategies to draw youth migrants more actively and effectively into the economic growth of Nepal. The study examines migrants falling in the 16- to 40-year-old age group, based on the GoN definition.