Nepal

Selected EarthTrends Data:

Variable	Value
Gini Index{1}	47
Population living on less than $1/day{2}	24%
Population living on less than $2/day{3}	69%
Poverty Gap $1/day{4}	5%
Poverty Gap $2/day{5}	27%
Access to improved sanitation	35%
Access to an improved water source	90%
Literacy rate, all adults	49%
Life expectancy, both sexes	64 years

Definitions and Sources

{1} Survey year: 2003-4. Based on expenditure. {2} Survey year: 2003-4. Based on expenditure. {3} Survey year: 2003-4. Based on expenditure. {4} Survey year: 2003-4. Based on expenditure. {5} Survey year: 2003-4. Based on expenditure.

Poverty resources:

• BAN UDYAM: Protecting Forests and Increasing Rural Incomes Through Community-Based Forest Enterprises (Document)
• USAID Nepal Country Office (Project)
• World Bank Nepal Program (Project)

Poverty datasets:

• None

Citations from the World Resources Report:

• Changes in Intrahousehold Labor Allocation to Environmental Goods Collection: A Case Study from Rural Nepal, 1982 and 1997
• Community Forestry in Nepal. Management Rules and Distribution of Benefits
• Consequences of Deforestation for Women's Time Allocation, Agricultural Production, and Nutrition in Hill Areas of Nepal
• Contested Impact of Community Forestry on Equity: Some Evidence from Nepal.
• Devolution in the Context of Poor Governance: Some Learning from Community Forestry in Nepal
• Impact of Community Forestry Policy on Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in Nepal
• Poverty and the Environment - Measuring the Links: A Study of Poverty-Environment Indicators with Case Studies from Nepal, Nicaragua and Uganda
• The Effect of Environmental Good Scarcity on Own-Farm Labor Allocation: The Case of Agricultural Households in Rural Nepal
• The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal
• The Long-Term Effect of Environmental Degradation on Women in the Hills of Nepal
• The Role of Forestry in Poverty Alleviation: Nepal

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World Bank PovertyNet Library: (opens in a new window)

• http://povlibrary.worldbank.org/library/country/122

Development Gateway: (opens in a new window)

• http://www.developmentgateway.org/countryprofile/?country_iso=NP