Institute for Integrated Development Studies
IIDS
Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS) is a non-governmental, non-profit research institute registered under Societies Registration Act 1977. Established on 25 November 1990, IIDS is a successor to the Integrated Development Systems (IDS) founded in 1979. The mission of IIDS is to contribute to identification, analysis, understanding and response to major development policy issues facing the country. The objective of IIDS is to contribute to more informed public policy and action by conducting empirically based, policy-oriented research on Nepal's economic and social development in national, regional and international context; to foster informed debate and discussion on key development issues facing the nation; to provide training and technical assistance for governmental and non-governmental agencies in areas of the institute's expertise; and to facilitate access to and exchange of experience with institutions within and outside the country. IIDS has carried out a large number of studies on policy and action research over the past two decades.
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Nepal Risk Outlook: Issue no. 6
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2021-12-15)The monetary policy is one of the major policy instruments used by central banks around the world to keep a check on the health of the economy. As Covid-19 continues to affect the key sectors of the economy, the central bank of Nepal that also works ... -
Nepal Risk Outlook: Issue No. 3
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2021-05-30)With the rapid spread of the triple-mutated Indian variant of Covid-19, the second wave of pandemic in Nepal has proven to be more fatal than that of the first wave last year. To prevent mass spreading of the virus, GoN has shut down the country’s ... -
IIDS Policy Advisory Group on Covid-19 Recommendations for Public Action
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2021-05-20)On May 17, 2021, Nepal recorded 214 deaths from Covid-19, a likely lagged outcome from two weeks ago when there were approximately 2,000 positive cases reported. More than 5,200 Nepalis have died so far from Covid-19 as of May 17, 2021. More than 460,000 ... -
Nepal Risk Outlook: Issue No. 2
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2021-04-15)Fifteen months since the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in December 2019 in Wuhan, pharmaceutical companies and suppliers around the world have been in a global race to manufacture vaccines adequate enough to vaccinate people against the virus. ... -
Nepal Risk Outlook
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2021-01-30)Covid-19 has been one of the worst public health crises of the modern time. First reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in end-December 2019 and declared a pandemic by WHO in mid-March 2020, it has gone on to severely affect countries around the world. ... -
Fiscal Federalism in Nepal: Revenue Potential of Provincial and Local Governments and Recommendations to Enhance Own-Source Revenue Generation
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2020-06-30)This study uses two methods to calculate the revenue collection gap at the sub-national level. The first methods uses revenue projection available from budget documents as a proxy for revenue potential and the second method estimates the revenue potential ... -
Appraisal of Global Economic Outlook in the time of COVID-19
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2020-06-30)Towards the end of 2019, the global economy appeared to be on an optimistic path of expansion, financial markets were bullish, and trade and political tensions were predictable. The onslaught of COVID-19 in early 2020, has abruptly cast a dark shadow ... -
Rapid Policy Appraisal on Employment, MSMEs and the Informal Sector in Fiji in the Time of Covid-19
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2020-06-28)Fiji is certain to be one of the hardest-hit countries by COVID-19 in the Asia-Pacific in terms of loss of jobs and output relative to the size of the economy. The risks posed by COVID-19 are amplified in economies with a large informal sector, a high ... -
COVID-19 Pandemic in Nepal: Rapid Assessment of Socio-Economic Impact on Vulnerable Groups
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2020-05-06)The main objective of this assignment is to assess the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on the severely affected sectors of the economy including travel and tourism and associated informal economy. The emphasis is on the poor and groups made vulnerable ... -
SAMBAD November 2019
(Institute for Integrated Development Studies, 2019-11-30)SAMBAD is a biannual newsletter of IIDS. SAMBAD provides its readers to get abreast with activities of IIDS.