Ongoing Programmes

With the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), SAWTEE is conducting a study (from February 2024 to March 2025) to suggest policy recommendations to inform the ADB Country Partnership Strategy (2025-2029) for fostering export growth and support development of a new growth model which is based on competitive businesses producing and exporting a range of goods and services. The study carries out an empirical analysis of the constraints on the growth of export of goods and services, challenges that firms in Nepal face in moving production from the domestic to the foreign markets and the enabling factors behind successful export stories. It identifies factors that explain the performance of successful exporters. It also considers the factors which have led to the exit of firms from export markets and kept away potential entrants for export.

SAWTEE is implementing the project from July 2022 to December 2026. The project is funded by USAID. Under this project, SAWTEE will identify, lead and implement policy work to increase access to market-based financial and non-financial services, increase productivity in sectors with high growth and employment potential and improve the investment climate and business enabling environment.