Contextual Nepal

 Students' absenteeism and its impact on their performance: A case of Pokhara  University students in Kathmandu Valley

COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, and after a certain time became a pandemic affecting all the countries around the world. Nepal is a landlocked country which shares a border with two of its gigantic neighbor, i.e. India and China, and has been facing lots of challenges in overcoming this situation. The second wave in India has become a major concern for the neighboring countries, and the effect of COVID-19 in India has created a huge concern for Nepal, since it shares an open border with India, so the impacts are quite visible, as COVID-19 cases are significantly rising every day in Nepal. This graph shows the total male and female infected data:   Source: Ministry of health and population, Nepal. "What is happening in India right now is a horrifying preview of Nepal's future if we cannot contain this latest Covid-19 surge that is claiming more lives by the minute," Nepal’s Red Cross chairman, Dr. Netra Prasad Timsina, said in a statement quoted by CNN.   As a

 What are the impacts of globalization in the context of Nepal? Nepal adopted the policy of liberalization, privatization, and globalization after the restoration of multiparty democracy in the early 1990s as the forerunner of globalization in the south Asian region.    In 2004, when Nepal got its WTO membership, since then the globalization in Nepal has accelerated. Globalization can bring both opportunities and threats to any developing country, organization, or business and livelihood.  On one hand, some people are in favor of globalization, whereas, on the other hand, there are people against globalization. People who favor globalization argue that globalization can help the poor country's domestic businesses to reach the international market, which can help the citizens to increase their standard of living, however, people on the other side argue that globalization has only helped the western countries, not the poor ones. As we can see, today most Nepalese businesses and entre