Low investment and inefficiencies in service delivery have hindered higher growth.

The World Bank’s recently released Global Economic Prospects has made a growth forecast of 4.6 percent for Nepal in 2017-18, which is the lowest barring Afghanistan.

The government of Nepal granted formal recognition to remittance in 1985 with the enactment of the Foreign Employment Act.

In the long run, the blockade will misfire at India’s geopolitical and economic dominance in Nepal