Nepal’s Unsteady Progress towards Fiscal Federalism
By Bishnu Adhikari, Parshuram Upadhyaya, Amol Acharya, and Abhas Ghimire Amid swirling uncertainties created by internal party wrangling and a second wave of Covid-19, all seven of Nepal’s provincial governments, newly created by the 2015 constitution, introduced their budgets for FY 2021/22 on June 15, meeting the statutory deadline. But Nepal’s halting progress towards fiscal federalism, in place only…