Photo Credit: Laxmi Prasad Ngakhushi It has been 50 days since the devastating earthquake struck Nepal on April 25.  With another powerful aftershock on May 12, a combined 9, 000 lives were…

Ram Sharan Mahat |

Nepali women listening to an official. Photo credit: World Bank This post was originally published on Time Women have lost the most—and they have the most to lose On April 25 and May 12, Nepal was…

Ravi Kumar |

Biswash, a 12 year old staying at the temporary camp in Uttar Dhoka showing the Dharahara collage he made.  ​Photo - Suresh Ghimire On April 25, the day of the earthquake, my colleagues and I were…

Dipeshwor Shrestha |

Keshav’s house (left) and his mother’s house (right), before the earthquake In Nepal’s hamlets and villages, in the first days following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, families…

Johannes Zutt |

Kathmandu after the first earthquake It has been a month since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Nepal on April 25. What happened next?    Having experienced a real threat of death, many…

Johannes Zutt |

I was struck by an interview featured in a recent show of CBC Radio One's The Current. Nani Gautam, a live-in caregiver in Canada, was asked how important was the money she sent home to her…

Dilip Ratha |

Volunteers transporting relief supplies. Credits: Rajib Upadhya. World Bank​ Nepal is coping with the consequences of a disastrous earthquake. During the next months the government will be under a…

Felipe Goya |

Relief supplies being unloaded from a New Zealand C-130 at the airport in Tuvalu after Cyclone Pam struck some outer islands. Photo: Nora Weisskopf When disaster strikes, air transport is often…

Charles E. Schlumberger |

  Security forces clearing the rubble at the historic Patan Durbar Square in Kathmandu Valley. Credits: Rajib Upadhya. World Bank It is Day Ten since the earthquake struck Nepal and the scale of…

Rajib Upadhya |

Nepal Poverty Map @World Bank While Kathmandu is steadily fighting to get back to some sense of normalcy, the situation is very different outside the capital where all districts around Kathmandu…

Saurabh Dani |