Nepal’s economic growth rate is going to be slightly up in 2012 and 2013 compared to the last year 2011 as per one UN report. The report World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012 has estimated that Nepal will maintain 4.3 percentage of economic growth in 2012 and 4.4 in 2013. This is higher than 0.7 percentage compared to the last year 2011.
Nepal and Pakistan are going to have almost same pace of economic growth as per the UN estimation for 2012 and 2013. Pakistan is going to achieve 4.1 and 4.4 percentage of economic growth in 2012 and 2013 respectively.
UN has noted that the long-standing structural problems such as weak implementation of policies, security concerns and less investment on physical and human capital will be holding back the growth rate of Nepal and another Asian country Iran.
The growth rate of India is also going to slowdown in 2012 and 2013 and that will have a negative impact in the region, South Asia.
