

Nepal
updated:2020-08-03
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Measure announced April 26. Informal sector workers who have lost their jobs due to the ongoing crisis will be given the opportunity to participate in public-works projects for a subsistence wage or receive 25 percent of local daily wage should they choose not to participate.
Measures announced May 28. In the budget speech for fiscal year 2020/21, Finance Minister Khatiwada announced additional measures in the areas of healthcare (the establishment of additional hospital facilities), business-support (a lending program for cottage, small and medium-sized enterprises and those in the tourism sector), and job-creation (labor-intensive in the construction sector, and training for work in manufacturing and services sectors).
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