NEPAL: FACTS AND FIGURES


Table 5.6:
Estimates of remittances
 

Agency Year Amount (Rs billion) Reference
HMG 2002/03 62 Source: Economic Survey (Fiscal Year 2003/04). HMG/Ministry of Finance, 2004. Table 6.7, p.40.
Nepal Rastra Bank 2002 74 Kantipur (daily broadsheet), June 2002, p.9
Himal Khabar Patrika 2003 115 Himal Khabar Patrik, 15-29 March, 2003
NIDS 1997 35*-69** Seddon, Adhikari and Gurung, 2001. The New Lahures. Kathmandu.


*Assuming that only 250,000 Nepali work in India in public sector.

** Assuming that about a million Nepali work in India in various sectors of the economy.