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			'title' => 'E-commerce Ecosystem: Navigating Current Challenges and Shaping the Future',
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			'short_content' => 'After experiencing significant growth in 2021 and 2022, most e-commerce ventures are now facing a slowdown in demand and sluggish revenue growth. During the Covid-induced lockdowns, demand for online services reached record highs as more people began to trust e-commerce platforms. ',
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			'title' => 'Nepal in Information and Digital Technology',
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			'title' => 'Cross-boarder Power Trade: Prospects and Challenges',
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			'title' => 'Madhesh Prospects',
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			'short_content' => 'Madhesh Province has lots of potential, opportunities and resources to fulfil the development aspirations of the local people and to contribute in overall national prosperity. But there are also several challenges that have put the province in a situation of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.',
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			'title' => 'Exporting Services To The World',
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			'short_content' => 'While Nepal's competitiveness in goods trade lags behind, there is an increasing urgency for both the government and the private sector to intensify their efforts in diversifying services exports. ',
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			'title' => 'Embracing the EV Culture',
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			'short_content' => 'The electric vehicle (EV) market in Nepal is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing consumer demand and a commitment to sustainable transportation. Despite frequently changing government policies and tax rates, the popularity of EVs is on the rise. The import figures reveal a surge in EV imports, with a 66.4% increase in the first nine months of the current fiscal year compared to the previous year. India is the largest supplier of EVs to Nepal, followed by China and South Korea. The government aims to transition to electric vehicles and reduce reliance on petroleum products. EVs offer advantages such as reduced emissions, cost savings, and utilization of Nepal's surplus electricity. However, challenges such as the lack of charging stations, high-interest rates, and inflation still exist. Innovative financing instruments and collaborative efforts between the government and private sector are crucial for promoting public electric mobility. To nurture the EV industry, policy and tax stability are essential for establishing a reliable and supportive environment for manufacturers and consumers.',
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			'title' => 'The New Economy in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the convergence of digital technologies and innovations, is reshaping various aspects of society, including the economy, culture, and individual lives. This revolution is marked by the blurring of lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, driven by technological advancements such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things.  While countries around the world are leveraging these new trends to their advantage, Nepal has been struggling to fully grasp and benefit from the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, there are efforts being made in certain sectors to adapt to this new techno-economic paradigm.  One key aspect of this revolution is the rise of tech companies that operate on digital platforms. Companies like Uber, Alibaba, and Oyo have achieved high valuations and transformed industries like transportation, retail, and hospitality without owning the physical assets traditionally associated with those sectors. These companies exemplify the potential for technology-driven disruption and innovation.  The rapid advancement of information technology has significantly changed the way people work, commute, communicate, and make payments. This shift has disrupted traditional business models, supply chains, and employment patterns. Economists believe that technology will drive the global economy, with the digital revolution unlocking tremendous opportunities.  Nepal, however, has been slow to embrace these changes. The country has not fully capitalized on industrialization in previous revolutions and risks falling behind once again. To catch up, latecomer economies like Nepal can adopt strategies of "leapfrogging," which involve skipping intermediate stages of industrialization and directly adopting advanced technologies. This could involve focusing on start-ups and service-based technologies rather than mass-based production.  Nepal has some strengths that can support its journey towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its young population, with a median age of 25 years, is quick to adopt new technologies as consumers and has the potential to innovate and create new opportunities. The gig economy, where young Nepali workers participate as freelancers or gig workers, has already shown potential in generating foreign currency earnings.  Efforts are being made in Nepal to make sense of the emerging trends and technologies. The Nepal Rastra Bank, for example, has initiated a feasibility study on the adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), positioning the country ahead in exploring the potential of digital currencies. The adoption of digital currency can revolutionize payments, increase financial inclusion, and democratize finance.  Moreover, sectors like agriculture in Nepal can benefit from the adoption of digital technologies. These technologies can increase efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in farming, thereby boosting the contribution of agriculture to the country's GDP. Digital platforms providing information on crop management, pest control, and weather information are already supporting farmers.  In conclusion, while Nepal may be somewhat isolated from the global trends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are efforts being made to adapt and benefit from digital innovations. By leveraging its young population, exploring strategies like leapfrogging, and embracing technologies in sectors like agriculture, Nepal can position itself to harness the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.',
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			'title' => 'New Business Age : New Economy',
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			'short_content' => 'The passage discusses the negative impact of the Maoist insurgency on Nepal's economy. It highlights the decline in tourist arrivals, the destruction of telecom infrastructure, and the adverse effects on various sectors such as education and health. The ongoing violence has disrupted social services in remote areas, leading to the desertion of health posts and the fleeing of teachers. The passage emphasizes the importance of peace and security for the country's socio-economic development.',
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			'title' => 'AILING ECONOMY',
			'image' => '20230415084151_Clipboard30.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s economy is passing through one of its worst phases in history. Most of the economic indicators point to a looming crisis. While the government is scrambling to bridge the gap between its revenue and recurring expenditure, the private sector's confidence is waning.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1265',
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			'title' => 'FOREST Versus FURNITURE',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Going GIG',
			'image' => '20230210073533_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The gig economy, also known as the sharing economy, refers to the labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work rather than permanent jobs. ',
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1262',
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			'title' => 'New Parliament’s Priority on Legal Reforms',
			'image' => '20230108053425_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali economy is currently experiencing one of its worst periods. Most economic indicators suggest that a crisis is looming. Economic growth, which averaged 4.9% between 2009 and 2019, contracted to 2.2% in 2020 for the first time in 30 years.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Extractive State, Costly Government Overreach',
			'image' => '20221211081823_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Despite its failure and poor performance in sectors where it is involved, the government seeks to expand its reach and role. The government is perpetuating its exploitative and extractive character through heavy taxation, discretionary power and overregulation, stymieing business innovation and growth in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'FRANCHISING IN NEPAL : GROWING MARKET, ZERO REGULATION',
			'image' => '20221114075414_Clipboard22.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The lifestyle of Nepali people has undergone an immense transformation over the past decade or so. From having meals at home to eating out, Nepali society’s preference for food has changed a lot.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'POWER OF PRIVATE EQUITY',
			'image' => '20221017073524_00000.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While there might be many factors that kill any business idea, lack of financing opportunity to bankroll the business has been a major reason that compels many Nepali entrepreneurs to abandon their business ideas.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '3656',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''PE/VC Helps on Meeting Investment Gap'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'PE/VC is not a completely new term in Nepal. Even though the government has recently formalized it, the investors with a large fund has been investing under the PE/VC model. Back in 2012/2013, a few companies have started investing in an informal way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1239',
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			'title' => 'A BATTLE OF CHOICES : The Merger Dilemma in the Insurance Sector',
			'image' => '20220912121130_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Six years ago, Beema Samiti - the insurance regulatory authority of Nepal - decided to issue operating licences to 10 new insurance companies. The decision to add a whopping number of insurance companies at that time took many by surprise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '3591',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
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			'title' => ' REMITTANCE : Risky Reliance',
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			'short_content' => 'What if Nepal either stops receiving remittances or there is a significant decline in the transfer of hard-earned money by Nepali workers abroad? This question—even hypothetical—should give our policymakers a chill. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'High Transfer Cost Not Only Reason Discouraging Use of Formal Channels',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal receives a significant share of remittances to GDP every year. The government data shows that the total remittance inflow translated into 22.53% of the total GDP in 2020/21. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '3594',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Can Remittances Support Development in Nepal?',
			'image' => '20220808123341_12121.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Out-migration from Nepal—a landlocked and least- developed country—has surged in the last two decades. Now, a third of households has at least one member abroad and Nepal has one of the largest remittances to GDP ratios (24%  in  2018). ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '3595',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Covid-19 and Impacts on Remittance Flows to Nepal',
			'image' => '20220808123702_Clipboard82.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After the surge of the global pandemic, a slew of lockdown measures were imposed to contain the virus. There were multiple predictions suggesting that the flow of remittance would dwindle in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	(int) 29 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3596',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Will Nepali Businesses Get Credit?',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'This time liquidity issues or so called C/D ratio (capping at 90%) of Banking System has really prolonged and Businesses, more particularly SME businesses are suffocating due to unavailability of credit. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '3542',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ban on Import of Automobiles, Misguided Move',
			'image' => '20220704014859_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The automobile industry is interconnected with all gamut of the Nepali economy. The decision of the government regarding restriction on the import of vehicles will have a long-term effect on the government and people alike in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '3547',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''The Automobile Sector is Going Through One of the Most Difficult Times in the History'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Prior to Covid-19 pandemic, the vehicle sales growth was very good. However, the pandemic dealt a blow to the auto mobile sector like it did to other sectors of the economy in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 32 => array(
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			'id' => '3548',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Restriction on a Part of Trade is Not a Solution'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The government has restricted the import of ICE vehicles for more than 2 months. It is sad to see that the government still looks at the four-wheelers as a luxury rather than a necessity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '3549',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''Restriction Impacted the Entire Motor Sector'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'What should really be understood is that vehicle is now no more a luxury but a necessity and needs to be reclassified. Vehicle to what extent is a luxury?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 34 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3550',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Automobiles are Not Luxury Products'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The restriction imposed by the government on the import of automobiles has affected the business of the entire automobile sector. If you look at the scenario, the automobile industry is one of the major contributors to the country's revenue.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
	(int) 35 => array(
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			'id' => '3551',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'The Effect of Double Restriction on Loans, Vehicles Piled up at Birgunj Customs'',
			'image' => '20220704021213_Clipboard26.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government's austerity measures and lack of liquidity to reduce the pressure on foreign exchange reserves have had an impact on vehicle imports.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 36 => array(
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			'id' => '3473',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1174',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENT : Eyeing Exports',
			'image' => '20220607103309_Clipboard18.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the manufacturing sector is on a sharp decline, the cement industry is experiencing a boom in recent years that is now eying the nearby markets for export as the domestic demands fail to keep up with the production capacity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '3343',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : An Untapped Opportunity for Nepal',
			'image' => '20220406122324_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the last few years, medical tourism has become a buzz word, fashionably coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling to another country for medical care.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '3344',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' "We Need More Trained Manpower to Promote Medical Tourism"',
			'image' => '20220406032627_234.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Dr. Prativa Pandey obtained her medical degree from New Delhi, India and did post graduation in Internal Medicine from Boston, USA. She worked for 10 years in the Boston area and returned to Nepal in 1993.',
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			'title' => 'Policy Change a Must for Viability of Medical Tourism',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In a broader sense, Nepalis currently spend billions of rupees on treatment abroad due to a lack of adequate health infrastructure. However, there is a high potential for medical tourism in Nepal. A sizable number of Indians come to Nepal to Tilganga for eye treatment for cataracts.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : A Magical Win-Win',
			'image' => '20220406104516_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Medical tourism is simply a joint domain of two domains, as suggested by its name. Renamed "medical value travel," it is described as a purposeful cross-country visit in order to obtain treatment or any form of healthcare service. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'title' => 'Leading Asian Countries for Medical Tourism',
			'image' => '20220406105654_11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many people in the world have started travelling to different parts of the world spending huge amount of money for medical treatment. These people will be accompanied by their family and friends who, apart from taking care of their near and dear, also visit the touristic destinations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
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			'title' => 'Nepal has Tremendous Potentials',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal as a medical tourism destination has tremendous potential. I am saying this because of my recent experience when I was in an Indian restaurant in the United States',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'Travel for Wellness',
			'image' => '20220406111138_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For ages, people used to travel considerable distances for medical and wellness treatment. During Roman times people sought out spas and thermal baths. Romans constructed resorts with thermal spas in entire Roman provinces. ',
			'status' => true,
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		)
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			'title' => 'Grey Tourism on the Rise',
			'image' => '20220406111912_1213.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Grey tourism is a specific niche market that caters towards older travellers. This group represents the largest, fastest growing, richest consumer market on the planet, accounting for half of earth’s consumer spending.',
			'status' => true,
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		)
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			'title' => 'PROBLEMS OF PLENTY : Power Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => '20220312063859_CS.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s power sector has undergone tremendous development in recent years. Most importantly, the power cuts (locally known as load-shedding) have now become history.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => ' “Foreign investors feel it is difficult to work in Nepal”',
			'image' => '20220312064632_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ashish Garg is the Vice President of the Independent Power Producers Association Nepal (IPPAN) and Convenor of the Energy Committee of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).',
			'status' => true,
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		)
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1043',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economic REFORMS 2.0',
			'image' => '20220213084154_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal is still to complete the first generation economic reforms that began in early 1990s or even before that, discussions have already begun on the need for second generation reforms. Is it the right time for second generation reforms? Where exactly are the reforms needed? Nubiz team has tried to explore.',
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		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1030',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'IPR Frustration',
			'image' => '20220108030745_Clipboard31.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'From Nike sneakers to Louis Vuitton handbags, Nepali consumers can easily purchase any item in the domestic market at a price that is nowhere close to their real or actual price. These knockoff products that closely resemble the global brands have long been flooding the market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3172',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1029',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Insurance industry’s response to Covid-19',
			'image' => '20211211085234_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the pandemic ravaged the tourism and leisure sectors such as hotels and travel businesses, industrial and financial sectors were also severely affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus and subsequent containment measures introduced by the government.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3147',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1028',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'UNCOVERING HIDDEN MONEY',
			'image' => '20211113075816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government is asking the private sector and investors to invest in certain priority sectors with a promise that it would not seek the source of income for two years. While the government wants to leverage the hidden cash for the country's development during the crisis',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SILVER LINING IN THE TOURISM SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090234_6.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In 2019, about 1.2 million tourists came to Nepal, and the income of tourism and hospitality businesses increased to good levels. Private sector investment also increased significantly in the sector targeting the upcoming Visit Nepal 2020. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3117',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE WAY FORWARD FOR INSURANCE SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090503_7.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance companies are risk managers. The relationship between their business and risk goes in one direction. As the risk increases, so does the insurance business, and when there is no risk, there is no need for insurance.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '3118',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SIGNS OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH',
			'image' => '20211006090638_8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali private sector has faced various challenges in every era. In the past, we went through a heap of problems including the worsening of labor relations, up to 18 hours of power cuts, and the 2015 earthquake and border blockade',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Under-construction Projects Should be Expedited for Quick Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090803_5.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Advancing infrastructure development by considering economic activities and sources available in the country can help improve the economy. However, the priority of political leaders and lawmakers in their constituencies has cast a shadow over our real need for development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 55 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3120',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Improvement Needed in Most Areas for Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090948_4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Due to the adverse situation created by the pandemic and the working style of the government, the country's economic scenario is not looking encouraging. The ‘white paper’ issued by the coalition government and the latest macroeconomic report of the central bank have also painted a bleak picture.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 56 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3121',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Generating 750 MW of Electricity can Add 1 Percent to Nepal’s GDP',
			'image' => '20211006091120_3.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, agriculture has always been considered as the main basis of economic development which is wrong. We need to look towards countries like China and Ethiopia and see how they leaped from agriculture to other sectors such as manufacturing and services',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 57 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3122',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
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			'title' => 'Banking Sector is the Mainstay of the Country's Economic Revival',
			'image' => '20211006091240_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Most of the sectors were affected by the lockdowns and prohibitory orders. However, the banking sector was not affected much.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 58 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3123',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Maintaining fiscal stability and generating employment is important',
			'image' => '20211006091354_1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The financial sector and capital market have performed exceptionally well even when other sectors were reeling with the sharp economic slowdown. Amidst the pandemic, digitalisation of financial services gained a big momentum. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 59 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'RECOVERING Nepal Inc.',
			'image' => '20211006091621_Clipboard48.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal's economy is slowly recovering from the unprecedented crisis brought on by the global pandemic. The signs are promising, but much more effort is required to face the challenges along the way.',
			'status' => true,
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		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MCC Nepal Compact – An insight',
			'image' => '20210905082515_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Compact is based on the principles of accountability, transparency, and mutual prosperity and will open up a new chapter in the infrastructure development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
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			'title' => 'MCC Compact : Costly Delay to Nepal’s Economic Development',
			'image' => '20210905083137_Clipboard47.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Power politics, controversies and unnecessary indecisiveness over the MCC Compact is not only making the fate of the USD 500-million grant for Nepal uncertain but also risks hurting the country’s ambition to transform the economy by exporting its hydroelectricity in the lack of adequate transmission infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3074',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'NRB Needs to Open Licenses for New Development Banks',
			'image' => '20210807050907_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When the new financial setup under the federal system was under preparation, a policy was formulated to encourage commercial banks to expand their presence in all the 753 local levels of the country. However, development banks were excluded as the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO) ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' LIBERALISING the Licensing Regime',
			'image' => '20210807051607_Clipboard49.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The time has come to cut the bureaucratic red tape and liberalise the licensing regime for a better business environment in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '3051',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1024',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Riding THE BOOM',
			'image' => '20210630085625_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Coronavirus raging across the country not only sickened hundreds of thousands of people and claimed over 8,558 lives across the country but also brought economic activity almost to a standstill for months.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3030',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1023',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energising EXPORTS',
			'image' => '20210531021546_Clipboard10.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Improvement in value chains generally leads to production of sophisticated products. These products cost more but there are customers who do not hesitate to pay premium because of the quality. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1022',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE BIG MELT',
			'image' => '20210501022954_cover story 4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In the first week of April, Community Eye Hospital in Hetauda suddenly started seeing a surge in the number of patients. The hospital, which used to handle around 100 to 150 patients a day, was receiving around 300 visitors on a daily basis, with almost all of them complaining about irritation in their eyes.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1021',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'WANTED : ELECTRICITY BUYERS',
			'image' => '20210330083821_Cover Story 1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chameliya Hydroelectric Project. The name conjures up images of a long-delayed hydropower project with huge cost overruns. The 30-megawatt project built by state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) started construction in January 2008 and was originally scheduled to come online by May 2011. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 68 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1020',
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			'title' => 'Construction Materials INDUSTRY NOW',
			'image' => '20210310102838_Clipboard19.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when many industries in Nepal are still reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with market demand yet to rise to pre-pandemic levels, the construction materials industry is going through a different situation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
	(int) 69 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2932',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1019',
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			'title' => 'THE CHINA CONUNDRUM',
			'image' => '20210207093114_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Like many traders who import goods from or export goods to China via land, Bed Bahadur Shrestha has become accustomed to a slew of problems at the Nepal-China border crossings. These problems range from wage hike demands made by porters who load and unload goods to intermittent disruptions in movement of cargo trucks due to landslides on rough Himalayan terrain. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 70 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'title' => ' THE SME IMPERATIVE : What would it take to help SMEs get back on their feet',
			'image' => '20210119022843_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the past nine months, exports of handicrafts have dipped dramatically as the international demand for merchandise goods has been decimated due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) reports a 70-80 percent fall in exports and an over 80 percent decline in domestic ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'Facing the CHALLENGES',
			'image' => '20201219071252_cc.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The coronavirus outbreak, which engulfed the globe after starting from the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, is having a multitude of impacts to women entrepreneurship in Nepal which was showing promising signs prior to the Covid-19 crisis.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1016',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Nepal’s Agribusiness Transformation',
			'image' => '20201109032251_Clipboard02.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For Nepal, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been severe and it is unlike past international crises when the events had little to no impact on the Himalayan country. But even in these gloomy times when the threat of the deadly pathogen looms large over the health of the citizens and the country’s economy, a silver ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
	(int) 73 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'BANKING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19',
			'image' => '20200917013051_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The four-month-long nationwide lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of cronavirus from late March to mid-July of this year and its subsequent impacts on the economic activities has put a dent on earnings of banks and financial institutions. Of the 27 commercial banks, only five banks have reported increase in profit in the last fiscal year ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Time for Banks to Manage Their Books Smartly',
			'image' => '20200917010658_Clipboard17.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali banking sector, in the last 20 years, had to grapple with major disturbances including the Maoist insurgency, 2015 Earthquake, and Indian economic blockade. But the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic has been the most challenging. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 75 => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On Banking in the Time of Covid-19',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The Monetary Policy for FY2020/21 has attempted to address many aspects of the economic slowdown brought by the four-month long lockdown. The arrangements encouraged business community members who were in a state of disarray due to the pandemic-induced recession. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 76 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1014',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Truth Behind Nepal-India Trade Relations',
			'image' => '20200817030322_Clipboard59.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Whenever Nepal-India bilateral relations come under strain, Nepal's economic dependence with the southern neighbour is often highlighted. Indian experts say the open border, transit access through Indian land and seaports, foreign direct investment from India, and India's dominating share in Nepal's foreign trade has benefited Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 77 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2682',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1013',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'HOTEL INDUSTRY : Survival for Existence and Beyond',
			'image' => '20200720033531_Newbusinessage_cover Design_Aug_2 - 2nd - Remove.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The series of worldwide unfortunate events over the last six months have dealt a massive blow to the Nepali hotel sector, which has an estimated investment of Rs 100 billion, with both international and domestic travel falling to zero, particularly after governments across the world rushed to impose lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus starting from mid-March.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 78 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2650',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1012',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dr Khatiwada's Third Budget :  Will it Revive the Covid-19 Stricken Economy?',
			'image' => '20200630094753_Clipboard09.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2020/21 was perhaps one of the most anticipated ones, in recent years. The fact that Finance Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada was presenting the budget against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic made the budget one to watch out for. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 79 => array(
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			'title' => 'Covid-19 Impact on Economy : Counting the Cost and the Road to Recovery  ',
			'image' => '20200524063327_civerstory.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'In normal times, Nepal gets over 300,000 foreign visitors during the spring tourist season of March-May with the occupancy rate of hotels soaring to over 60 percent keeping the hospitality industry busy. This time, however, it is different with hotels practically empty and no one working.',
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			'title' => 'NEPALI STARTUP ECOSYSTEM : The Growth So Far & The Future',
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			'short_content' => 'The last two months have been quite eventful for Nepali startups. First, Foodmandu, Nepal’s largest food delivery platform, has secured its second-round investment from Team Ventures, a private equity (PE) firm. Then, Health at Home, a healthcare services portal, also got funding from Business Oxygen (BO2),',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'A YEAR AFTER NEPAL INVESTMENT SUMMIT',
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			'short_content' => 'Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his address to the House of Representatives on February 14, to mark the current government’s second year, highlighted how successful his administration has been in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1009',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on A year After Nepal Investment Summit',
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			'short_content' => 'The present government came to power with the slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’. Happiness is a vague concept; however, material happiness at least requires overall improvement in the standards of living, economic, social and environmental security',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ' New Face of Women Entrepreneurship',
			'image' => '20201010030357_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Himalayan country is currently witnessing attempts made by women to break through the corporate and entrepreneurial glass ceiling to become master of their own destiny which was elusive for them a couple of decades ago. It is promising in a sense that Nepali women, who were largely confined to household works in the past, have taken charge of their own future. I',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
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			'title' => 'Message from President Xi’s Nepal Visit',
			'image' => '20201013014927_sdsd.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Jiang Zemin visited Nepal in 1996, China was barely able make it to the list of top ten economies and was trying to establish itself as the low-cost factory of the world. In 2019, when Xi Jinping came to the Himalayan nation for the first presidential visit by a Chinese President in 23 years,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
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			'title' => 'CHINA FIXATION : WILL POLITICAL BONHOMIE TRANSLATE INTO ECONOMIC GAIN FOR NEPAL?',
			'image' => '20201013024850_China Grapix.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Kathmandu in the second week of October, the first official visit by a Chinese President in 23 years, many eyes were on him wondering if he would announce the construction of the much-hyped Kerung-Kathmandu Trans-Himalayan Railway and how large a financial assistance package China would offer to Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
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			'title' => 'DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => '20200226125110_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Clearing House Limited (NCHL), in the month of Poush (December/January), reported that monthly transactions on its connectIPS, an electronic payment system, reached Rs 12.05 billion. The size of the transaction highlights two things. Digital payment is growing in acceptance among ordinary Nepalis and people are getting connected to the broader fintech (financial technology) disruptions taking place the world over. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2541',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Technology is enabling an ecosystem where customers are acquired and served differently than traditional ways. While designing a digital strategy, it is important to understand how customers are acquired and how they are served',
			'status' => true,
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'title' => 'CEMENT INDUSTRY WOES : How to Stop it Going from Boom to Bust',
			'image' => '20210116080717_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when the country’s industrial productivity has mostly remained subdued, it is a matter of great pride to note that Nepal has become self-reliant in cement production. Over the last few years, this essential construction material has been witnessing a boom in business which, historically, only a few industries in Nepal had gone through.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1001',
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			'title' => 'Big Merger : NRB’s Merger Cane and Nepali Banking',
			'image' => '20210115023054_131.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In what looked like students being summoned into the headmaster’s office for a caning, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on June 27 invited chairmen and CEOs of banks and financial institutions to Hotel Yak and Yeti, a five-star property in downtown Kathmandu,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1000',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Has the Business Climate Changed?',
			'image' => '20210112124401_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ever since KP Sharma Oli assumed the prime ministerial post in February 2018, for the second time, he and several ministers of his cabinet have repeatedly expressed in foreign as well as domestic forums that ‘Nepal is open for business with lucrative investment opportunities’, and that ‘foreign as well as domestic investors should invest in the country without any feeling of hesitation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Hotels in Nepal : THE NEW WAVE',
			'image' => '20190511105700_Clipboard37.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After seven months, it will be Visit Nepal 2020. The goal of this second national tourism promotion campaign (The first was VNY 1998) is to welcome two million foreign visitors. The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign aims to achieve twice as many travellers than the goal set for Tourism Year 2011 and four times bigger than that of Visit Nepal Year 1998. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Technology Meets Hospitality',
			'image' => '20190511111432_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In this digital era, when contact with technology is inevitable, any form of business can create disruption in the industry with the wise and clever use of technology. The hospitality industry, till a few years ago, was human intensive with every big and small player striving to provide quality services and amenities through its vast resource pool.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Hotel Boom in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Hoteliers are very much prepared; today we have enough hotels to accommodate 2.5 million guests in term of rooms, beds, food and entertainment. Eventually, by combining all categories of hotels, i.e. stars hotels, resorts, lodges, guest houses and even the homestay facilities, we have the strength in numbers to make Visit Nepal 2020 a grand success.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'ICTC GROUP’S NEW GEN : TAKING OVER THE REINS',
			'image' => '20190412013409_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Any transition from the old generation to the new comes with both opportunities and challenges. In a family-run business, this becomes more evident due to the complexities in managing various aspects such as maintaining the values of the family, incorporating ideas of the new generation, and most importantly the succession planning, factors that are considered essential to the success of the businesses and for charting their direction for the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2449',
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Mutual Funds in Nepal : Way Ahead',
			'image' => '20190317123055_Clipboard04.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The development or growth or expansion of the capital market in Nepal has been talked about a lot. However, these discussions have made little real impact.  Thus, the Nepali capital market is operating in an ecosystem where many components are entirely absent.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'title' => 'The SSF Challenge',
			'image' => '20190222082452_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'On November 27, 2018, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli launched the ambitious, contribution-based Social Security Fund (SSF) claiming it as the ‘beginning of a new era’ amid lavish fanfare. “It is a historical achievement for us. The launch of the scheme will create a better work environment in the country,” said the Prime Minister unveiling the welfare scheme',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Too Big to Fail : Saving NAC from the Claws of Greed',
			'image' => '20190122020426_Clipboard12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In August 2016, when the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) decided to start process of purchasing two Airbus wide-body aircraft for long-haul flights, a bright light of hope for a revival of the struggling national flag carrier was seen at the horizon.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '992',
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			'title' => 'How Export of Services can Balance Nepal’s Trade',
			'image' => '20181223111245_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Global trade, today, is undergoing a transformation with the balance fast shifting towards trade in services from trade in goods. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the governing body for international trade, trade in services now accounts for two-thirds of the global trade in value added terms.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '991',
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			'title' => 'Banking Strategies and Disruptions : Nepali Banking Industry’s New Direction',
			'image' => '20181116022537_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => '81  years after Nepal Bank Limited was established as the first commercial bank in the country, the Nepali banking sector has seemingly come to a crossroads. From issues related to liquidity management, financial inclusion, productive sector lending, CSR obligations and sustainable business practices',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Distorting the Private Sector',
			'image' => '20181007011305_Clipboard38.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The country’s private sector is increasingly turning to easier but more financially rewarding ventures like trading and partnering with the public sector on procurements and extraction of resources.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Problems in New Tax Arrangements and Taxation Reform',
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			'short_content' => 'The first federal government budget indicates that the government has taken a backward momentum in terms of taxation. There has been 5 percent customs buty increment on the impart of agricultural commodities. Such used to be levied also in the part but was abandoned long time back. Likewise, tariffs on the import of many commodities have been increased. To stop illegal imports of goods and commodities, the government should have reduced the tariffs. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Indirect Taxes in Nepal : Challenges and Trends',
			'image' => '20180910022816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'According to Harvard economist Daron Acemoglu, tax revenue as percentage of GDP is generally higher among countries with higher per capita income. Nepal is an anomaly in the global trend. For a country with modest economy, Nepal displays a strong state capacity for taxation.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '989',
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Taxation Transition: Finding the Ideal Tax Template',
			'image' => '20180910030853_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'During his recent trip to the United States to participate in the annual meeting of The World Bank, Minister for Finance Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada presented Nepal as the most competitive country in South Asia in terms of corporate income tax.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'BBIN : Will Sub-regionalism Work?',
			'image' => '20180806023952_Clipboard43.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Across the world, markets have enjoyed tremendous success by embracing free trade regimes within regional markets with connectivity as the nucleus of such practices of economic integration. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the European Union (EU) bloc is a vivid example. Within regionalism, countries have even experimented with sub-regionalism to realise the economic potential of underdeveloped pockets.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2200',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '988',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Connectivity : Trailblazer of Regional Integration',
			'image' => '20180806025500_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Trade and economic integration at the bilateral and regional levels is gaining ground in the wake of the faltering global trading system. The looming dissension against the rules of international trade by the US administration not only debilitated the functioning of the World Trade Organization (WTO) but also reckoned to the re-emergence of old mercantilist theory,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 106 => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Regional Integration',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a Jaipur (India) based NGO working in the areas of trade, economy and environment, organised a regional policy dialogue on “Connectivity Imperatives in the Bay of Bengal Region” in New Delhi on May 2 and 3.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2193',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Breaking Away from the Zero-sum Paradigm​',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The foreign policy of every country is guided by national interests and priorities. In the context of the growing Nepal-China relationship, it is essential for Nepal to maintain a sound relationship with both India and China in order to ensure success of its foreign policy.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dancing with the Dragon : The Road Ahead to Nepal-China Economic Relations',
			'image' => '20180706031803_Clipboard104.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A previously little-known locality of Jhapa spreading across areas of Kamal Rural Municipality and Gauradaha and Damak municipalities has caught national attention due to its high economic significance. Located about 9 kilometres from the Damak section of the East-West Highway,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 109 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2163',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Economics of Sports : More than Fan Fever',
			'image' => '20180615095940_Clipboard54.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Behind this worldwide football euphoria and the curiosity about who will lift the trophy, are the economic benefits the host country, the governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), event sponsors, brands, broadcasters, advertisers, marketers and numerous other businesses, big and small, will reap from the quadrennial sporting event. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 110 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2164',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Economics of Sports',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Sports is also an indicator of a country’s societal and economic development. The performance of players in international competitions reflects the state of development. Nepal has not reached the stage where we can execute plans related to sports in well managed ways.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2131',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A Win-Win Strategy for Liquidity Management',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal needs massive investment for its economic growth. We should be very careful while designing economic policies that must support the long-term economic growth objectives of the government. The current level of investment, though meeting the annual target set by the government,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 112 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Credit Crunch : Beyond a Wake Up Call For Banking Sector',
			'image' => '20180514032903_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Times are hard for Nepali banks and financial institutions (BFIs). They have been struggling with the ongoing shortage of loanable funds which started in December 2017.  From construction of hydropower projects, industrial expansion, real estate and housing transactions to sales of vehicles, many commercial, infrastructure development and manufacturing activities have been hit by the problem.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 113 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management  1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The shortage of loanable funds has been caused by several factors. The outflow of Nepal is for overseas work opportunities has declined in recent time which can be attributed to the recent political developments that has been signaling political stability in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 114 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, there is a tendency of revolving around the same issues instead of searching for the options to come out of the troubles. We have been continuously hearing about issues like sluggishness in capital expenditure, swelling trade deficit and distributive budget since 2048 BS.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2101',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '984',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal’s Top 30 Business Houses : Leading the Way',
			'image' => '20180403103039_Clipboard69.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'This article discusses the top 30 Nepali business houses, highlighting their history, growth, diversification, management practices, political connections, controversies, and future expansion plans. These business houses have played a significant role in Nepal's economy, venturing into various sectors such as banking, insurance, tourism, hospitality, health, education, IT, real estate, housing, and hydropower. The article emphasizes the benefits of diversified business operations for these groups, allowing them to withstand market shocks and navigate political and economic uncertainties. It also mentions the generational transition within these family businesses and their increasing engagement with politics. Despite controversies and allegations, these business houses continue to thrive and have optimistic plans for further investments and market development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Securing Intellectual Property Rights',
			'image' => '20180312112200_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property Right (IPR) plays a vital role for economies to thrive in today’s competitive world.  Countries have been adopting rigorous legal and technical measures to secure the intellectual properties (IPs) which they consider very important to attract investments and also to secure their national interests.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '2078',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Trademark Administration in Nepal',
			'image' => '20180313095356_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A  trademark often referred to as a ‘creation of the mind’ is an intellectual property. UK law defines a trademark as “a sign capable of being represented graphically which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of another undertaking” ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Intellectual Property Rights ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property (IP) is an essential tool for the economic development of any country. Four factors that drive the engine of IP smoothly are creation, promotion, protection and use of IP. In Nepal, there is no dearth of creative activities coming out from academic and research organisations as well as technical professionals who produce literary, artistic, musical and scientific creations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2050',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Changing HR Dynamics in Nepal  ',
			'image' => '20180220104009_Clipboard50.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'There is a growing sense of realization among Nepali employers that focusing only on activities including production, sales and marketing, for example, are largely insufficient to meet the organisational objectives and to mitigate the existing and future challenges.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2051',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The traditional mindset still prevails in many organisations when it comes to human resource management. It sees people as liabilities whereas the modern philosophy of HRM takes people as the most important asset in the organization.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2052',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The frustration of people is generally directed towards the lack of career growth opportunities. People keep on working but are unaware about the next step for growth. This is so partly because many organisations have failed to design clear career paths for their employees and communicate with them. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2020',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Analyzing Manufacturing Prospects',
			'image' => '20180121115146_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Economies have thrived expanding their manufacturing base by reforming industrial policies, diversifying outputs, scaling-up production processes and systems, attracting global investments and upgrading connectivity and power-supplies. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2021',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Manufacturing Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Cost of doing business in Nepal has gone up for everybody whether exporters, importers or domestic-based producers. For the export market, fulfilling business commitments in time and remaining competitive is difficult. It may diminish our preferential value. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Health  for All : Accelerating Universal Healthcare Coverage in Nepal',
			'image' => '20171223103203_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Access to healthcare for the average Nepali has significantly improved in the last three decades. The increasing availability of better healthcare services in the country has led to a rise in almost all health related indicators.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1998',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Healthcare Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The main challenge in the health sector is that people have to bear all the expenses of the health care in Nepal. Opening such a big institution definitely brings more patients and causes more stress. The patients are more stressed when they have to pay more than their potential.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1966',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '979',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Startup Ecosystem : Is it the Next Growth Engine for Nepal?',
			'image' => '20171113111636_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? How can a small venture starting from scratch take centre-stage in the world of business? How can young people realise their ideas in business to bring innovative solutions and positive changes to society? ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 127 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1927',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Buddha in Business Management',
			'image' => '20171008101524_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been over 2,500 years since Gautam Buddha enlightened the world with his teachings encouraging people to follow the path of non-violence, truthfulness and righteousness. More than two and a half millennia later, the world continues to remember his teachings in the form of Buddhism,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 128 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1936',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“We keep coexistence in mind”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'One requires honesty and credibility to run a successful business. We at CE try to strive for this as much as possible; we avoid taking any bad action against anyone. There is no unhealthy competition between us and our competitors nor do we have any negativity towards them.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 129 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1937',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Planning, organisational management and motivation are main components of Buddhist management”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The universal definition of management is to manage tactfully. In Buddhism too, the meaning is not that different. It refers to management of life. Buddha’s main concern was to understand how to manage the life that we live, in order to be able to gain the maximum benefit from our lives. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1919',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '25 Years of Unilever Nepal : Charting New Heights in FMCG',
			'image' => '20170914013755_coverstory.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been a glorious 25 years of Unilever in Nepal. Unilever Nepal Limited (UNL) has seen several ups and downs in this journey, ultimately establishing itself as perhaps the largest FMCG manufacturer in the country. Profitability along with positive impact on society and the environment has been at the core of the business model of UNL. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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	(int) 131 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1920',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Our vision is to grow the business whilst decoupling environmental footprint from the company’s growth and to increase positive social impact”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali FMCG sector is a mixture of importers and unorganised players who mostly infringe the IPRs and also don’t comply with local rules in letter or spirit. To accelerate the FMCG sector’s growth, Nepal requires big investments in local manufacturing, marketing, capability of people and distribution infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1884',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Robust Business of FMCGs ',
			'image' => '20170820113716_c.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'FMCG sector has championed the Nepali manufacturing establishment. Now with the right set of policies and an environment conducive to business, Nepali FMCG brands aim  high to take on the international market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1885',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali FMCG Sector',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'With the growing income of the lower and middle class people, the market is growing. Many FMCG products are somewhat essential in nature, particularly the products with market brands. All FNCG companies in the country are doing very well. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1855',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => '20170712094552_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Known to many as ‘a country of villages’ just a few decades ago, Nepal is witnessing a rapid shift in rural and urban demographics. The change in demographics is attributed to the internal migration that has speeded up over the last 3-4 decades. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 135 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1856',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Planned urbanisation has become a priority development agenda for the government and political parties lately. This is because of the rapid urbanisation due to the sharp increase in the urban population.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1807',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economics of Insurance',
			'image' => '20170614095308_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance is familiar to the general people of insurance of car, buildings and contents and life insurance.  Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1818',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Insurance Sector&nbsp;</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Towards Golden Days</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170615100049_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The interest of general public towards insurance over the last few years has grown as more Nepalis are looking to get insured.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 138 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1785',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT<br /> Some Policy Issues</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170512120504_co.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Things have been progressing quite encouragingly following the March 2-3 mega-event that was the Nepal Investment Summit 2017 organised by the Ministry of Industry. Investors, mostly foreign, expressed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest a total of USD 13.52 billion, in various  sectors in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 139 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1795',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Foreign Direct  Investment',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal has entered into a new era of policy reform. We call it the second generation reform.  We have seen the changes over the past five to six months in this regard. The government has brought different policies and Acts to improve the investment climate in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 140 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1762',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>INVESTMENT IN NEPAL<br /> Materialising the Opportunities</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170424091033_c0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Of late, both the public and private sectors seem to have realised the importance of infrastructure growth and investment. While the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), a major umbrella organisation of the Nepali private sector organised a mega event titled Nepal Infrastructure Summit (NIS) 2017 on February 19, ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 141 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1763',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Infrastructure Summit : Evidence Based Advocacy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Infrastructure has various effects on an economy. Primarily, infrastructure stimulates economic development by encouraging production activities. It produces various crowding in effects, including in production activities and quality of life for households, which thus benefits the entire society. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1764',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“It is important to engage domestic investors in bringing foreign investments”',
			'image' => '20170424095943_c00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The undertaking was aimed at informing potential foreign investors about the recent reforms at the policy level and conveying the message that Nepal is a suitable destination for doing business. On this, the participants signed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest in potential sectors. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1765',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Investment in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Lack of basic infrastructures has forced us to witness economic growth averaging 4 percent over the last one decade. The infrastructure gap has directly hurt development activities. As we are aspiring to reach the level of middle-income nations by 2030,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1735',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE IRON IS HOT!',
			'image' => '20170326103544_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal which used to be mostly dependent on the import of iron and steel construction materials over a decade ago now seems to be on the way to become self-sufficient in such products. Steel bars, rods and galvanized corrugated sheets for roofing are the major items produced in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 145 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1736',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Iron and Steel Industries in Nepal ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The industrialisation of Nepal gained momentum after the political changes in 1990. The liberal and open market policies helped the industries to grow. Nevertheless, the Maoist insurgency put a major roadblock in the pace of the country’s industrialisation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1706',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '50 YEARS OF NEPALI TOURISM',
			'image' => '20170224030513_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The years since 2015 are considered to be historic for the Nepali tourism sector.  The years marked the golden jubilee celebrations of some important hotels and tourism related organisations that have been pivotal for the institutional development of the tourism sector in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 147 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Tourism Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Airlines are essential to the tourism industry of any country. Maintaining quality of services in the airlines is important to ensure a healthy inflow of tourists. The quality of an airliner doesn't just depend on serving good food and providing a glass of champagne.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 148 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1685',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENTING THE GROWTH',
			'image' => '20170122032905_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The word ‘self-sufficiency’ has become a well worn cliché when it comes to industrial development in Nepal. Given the steep decline in industrial activities over the past one and half decades due to various obstructing elements, it has become very difficult for many manufacturing sector companies',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 149 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1686',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Cement Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali cement manufacturers started their business at a very hard time during the Maoist insurgency around 15-16 years ago. They are still facing a lot of problems. Nevertheless, gradually with the increasing market the number ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 150 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1664',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CSR: HOW DOING GOOD FOR SOCIETY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS',
			'image' => '20161219011734_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many companies in Nepal are engaged in various activities of social importance. From education and health, livelihood of marginalized communities, infrastructure development in rural areas, increasing inclusiveness, preservation of heritage or ecological conservation,  MNCs, BFIs, business houses 
',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 151 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1665',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CSR Initiatives of Some Companies in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'At present, many businesses in Nepal have integrated CSR and philanthropic activities into their day-to-day operations. The consciousness of social responsibility has led them to share their profit with the society',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 152 => array(
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			'id' => '1638',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '967',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AUTO MARKET ON HIGH GEAR',
			'image' => '20161125124218_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Badly affected by last year’s twin shocks that came in the form of the April and May earthquakes and India's border blockade, the Nepali automobile market is in recent months recovering in a fast way. The entire car business which was down almost 50 percent for the whole of 2015, is now growing at a pace',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 153 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1614',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '966',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px">ARE WE CATCHING UP<br /> WITH THE WORLD</span><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">Nepali Business Houses in New Economy</span></p>',
			'image' => '20161016024336_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'One of the characteristics  of Nepali business houses is that they like to be omnipresent, in every sector, in all parts of the country and even may be abroad.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 154 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1584',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Investment for Change</strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="font-size:16px">Envisioning Nepal&#39;s Economic Prospetrity</span></strong></p>',
			'image' => '20160926042128_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Change’ has become an overhyped buzzword in Nepal with the country going through various political and social changes over the past few decades. And these changes have so far failed to translate into economic prosperity and development as the prolonged political instability has been dragging the economy down. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 155 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1585',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
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			'title' => 'Lifetime Achievement in Business Leadership Award to Chiranjilal Agrawal -  Honouring the Legend ',
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			'short_content' => 'Chiranjilal Agrawal has played a big role in bringing Nepali industries in general and his family’s own MC (Madanlal-Chiranjilal) Group of Companies to today’s position. He worked continuously to diversify and modernise the Agrawal family business. His father late Dhiraj Agrawal started with a clothes shop in Dharan 97 years ago.',
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			'title' => 'Guest Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'It is no secret in today’s world that it is the business community and the entrepreneurs who move the countries ahead. The government must act not as a doer but as facilitator, a promoter and motivator. We need to convey this message not only within the country ',
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			'title' => 'Panelist Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal still lacks a sound business environment as the country is passing through difficult times.  Despite this, we have been able to move forward with our hopes latched onto the economy and the people, since we do not have other alternatives.',
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			'title' => 'Winner Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'I express my sincere gratitude towards New Business Age for the award. This has encouraged me to become more active. Our group has been active across multiple business sectors for the last 97 years. ',
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			'title' => 'Jury Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => '  The programme was very effective and inspirational.  All the sessions and especially the panel discussion gave a positive message that there are immense business opportunities in Nepal. ',
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			'title' => 'Advertising Industry Now .. Where is Nepali Advertising Heading',
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			'short_content' => ' The government’s decision to prioritise the production and transmission of domestic ads over foreign made ads could be a watershed moment for the domestic ad industry. How will it face the new challenge and will it be able to sort out its current shortcomings and make good use of the impending boost?',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 1',
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			'short_content' => 'Advertising has become something of a culture at present. The concept of advertising has been firmly established in the business sector in that businesses need to advertise their products and services in order to prosper. ',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 2',
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			'short_content' => 'Brand management is an integral part of any marketing campaign. If we can handle the brand management side effectively, advertisements will become more efficient. The agencies as well as the advertisers should have the knowledge about fundamentals of advertisement.',
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			'title' => 'The Real Sector’s Real Stock Market Deal',
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			'short_content' => 'The Nepali stock market has been on a bull run setting new records in recent months. Led by the banks and financial institutions alongside insurance companies, the NEPSE Index has been reaching new heights nearing the 2,000-points mark. The gravity defying high speed increase in the ‘Kathmandu bourse’ overtly showcases the strong confidence of general investors. ',
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			'title' => '<strong>LEGIS-LATER?</strong> <br />BILLS STUCK IN PARLIAMENT<br/> MAKING NEPAL AN ECO<span style="color:red;">NO</span>MY.',
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			'short_content' => 'With the country facing a severe economic recession due to last year’s devastating earthquake and Terai stir, Nepal is in need of all kinds of initiatives from the government including the policy support to end the current economic malaise.',
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			'title' => 'The Federal Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'With the promulgation of the new constitution, Nepal has adopted federalism as its administrative system, effectively doing away with its earlier five development regions and 75 districts. The country will be divided into seven states or provinces, the names of which have yet to be determined.',
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			'title' => 'Investment in Nepal .. Why, Where & How ?',
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			'short_content' => 'The Investment Board and the Ministry of Industry of Nepal have jointly brought out a new guide for investment in Nepal. This follows earlier guide that UNCTAD and ICC had jointly brought out in 2003. ',
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			'title' => ' Marketers pay heed to Women and Villages',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal abounds in huge new market segments. But, so far, not much has been done. It's high time we analyse these sectors and start appropriate measures to harness this vast untapped potential to make money.',
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			'title' => 'The Health of Nepali Pharma Industry',
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			'short_content' => 'The good news is the domestic pharmaceutical industry is in good health, despite the massive earthquake of April 25 last year and the ongoing unofficial blockade by India. It’s not that these events have not affected the industry at all but, according to the Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal (APPON), it has battled the odds well to cope with the emerging situation.',
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			'title' => 'Nepal China Trade : Prospects and Challenges',
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			'short_content' => 'The high Himalayan range in Nepal’s north has always served as a natural barrier prompting the country to trade more across its flat border with India, but the latter’s current blockade against Nepal has forced it to explore the trade prospects with China and tackle the challenges that come in the way. ',
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			'title' => 'Self-Reliant Economy : Myth Vs Reality',
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			'short_content' => 'Will Nepal now learn to not just talk the talk but actually walk the walk when it comes to making the country’s economy more self-reliant as it suffers under the yoke of economic dependency? The general consensus seems to be that it must.',
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			'title' => 'The Business of Festivals',
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			'short_content' => 'Besides a time for fun and enjoyment, festivals have also increasingly become occasions for brisk business. No wonder the Nepali economy is often described as a festival-driven economy. ',
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			'title' => 'The Eight Billion Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'It’s not going to be easy for banks to comply with the new NRB directive for minimum paid-up capital. However, the banks seem to have no alternative other than to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and meet the challenge. ',
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			'title' => 'Expert's View',
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			'short_content' => 'We took the step so that the capital base of banks widens and small shocks and risks do not affect them. We also want banks to be able to finance big projects on their own without having to seek co-financers; when the paid-up capital increases a bank’s single obligor limit (SOL) is also raised. ',
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			'title' => 'Economy in New Constitution',
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			'short_content' => 'As a democratic country, what sort of economic policies should Nepal adopt? Shouldn’t the new constitution clearly define such policies? Can the proposed constitutional provisions concerning the country’s economy really come in the way of its development?',
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			'title' => 'Some Expert Suggestions on Draft Constitution',
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			'short_content' => 'In a roundtable discussion on the draft constitution titled Economic Concerns in the Draft Constitution organised by Samriddhi, The Prosperity Foundation and Nepal Economic Forum (NEF) experts discussed the importance of having a sound economic stance along with social and development related issues in the constitution.',
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			'title' => 'Construction Industry  Now',
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			'short_content' => 'As Nepal gears up for the reconstruction phase post earthquake, experts anticipate a healthy growth for the country’s construction industry. ',
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			'title' => 'Experts' View July 2015',
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			'short_content' => '“We anticipate at least a 40 percent growth in cement demand”',
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			'title' => 'Rising From The Rubble',
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			'short_content' => 'The devastating 7.6 local magnitude (ML) Gorkha earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 and the subsequent aftershocks have caused more than 30,000 casualties including over 8,600 deaths. In addition to this tragic loss of human lives, the economic toll of the quake is immense. Tourism, agriculture, hydropower, manufacturing, real estate, SMEs, physical infrastructures etc have been hit hard by the quake.',
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			'title' => 'Assessing the Impact of the Great Earthquake',
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			'short_content' => 'Forty-one percent (7,532) schools out of 18,289 were completely destroyed in 49 districts, but 4,650 schools are affected in 14 major-hit districts. 2,106 toilets and 1,363 drinking water fountains in schools were also destroyed.',
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			'title' => 'The Cost of the Earthquake in the Districts',
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			'short_content' => 'Fourteen of the country’s 75 districts were hit hardest by the quake. Districts like Dolakha have been completely devastated. However, even districts where the physical damage is quite low, such as Rupandehi, are facing the economic fallout. ',
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			'title' => 'Growing and Growing Cement',
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			'short_content' => 'Cement production in Nepal has been growing sharply over the past few years. The industry is among the country's most flourishing business sectors as the demand of cement is constantly rising. The vast untapped limestone reserves spread across the country have not only lured domestic companies but also the international investors.  ',
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			'title' => 'Experts' View May 2015',
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			'short_content' => 'The cement industry in Nepal is in the growing phase. Nepal is in the initial phase of infrastructural development. There are about 40-50 cement industries in existence in the country. The cement industry has immense scope.  ',
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			'title' => 'Driven by Demand',
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			'short_content' => 'The Nepali passenger vehicle market has registered a staggering growth. The market of cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) has been growing fast in recent years and new passenger vehicle brands have entered the country. Customers from various income groups are buying different types of four-wheelers which have ultimately started new segments of cars and SUVs in the domestic market.',
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			'short_content' => 'With the increasing demand of new television technologies, high-end TV market in Nepal is expanding at a rapid pace. Fuelled by the rise of tech-savvy young population, rising per capita income and falling prices of TV sets in the recent years, LED, Smart, 3D and Ultra-High Definition TVs have eventually become a must-have for Nepali consumers who are looking to enhance their viewing experience. ',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal is an increasingly growing market for most foreign airlines operating in the country. This growth is fuelled mainly by the increasing outflow of migrant workers, and, to some extent, the gain in tourist arrivals in a market where the presence of the national flag bearer, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) remains shrunken.',
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			'short_content' => 'Samsung is the number one mobile phone brand in the world, with highest market share in total mobile phone sales and highest market share in total smartphone sales. One of the reasons behind its high popularity is that the company is investing millions of dollars every year for research 
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			'short_content' => 'Almost all stakeholders of Nepal’s hydropower sector are highly encouraged and enthused by the signing of the Power Trade Agreement (PTA) between Nepal and India and the Power Development Agreement (PDA) between Nepal government and India’s GMR and Sutlej for the development of the 900MW Upper Karnali Hydroelectricity Project and 900MW Arun III project respectively. ',
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			'short_content' => 'The startup scene in Nepal has changed significantly over the last five–seven years, with new and young entrepreneurs coming up with innovative ideas every year. Today, though there is no official data, the number of successful startups in Nepal is estimated to be above 50. ',
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			'short_content' => 'echnology sector is all about innovation. Coming up with new ideas only is not just enough for tech entrepreneurs. To sustain growth they must constantly innovate themselves. ',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal is ideally located between India and China to work as a golden land-bridge between them and facilitate their bilateral trade. But for this to happen, all three countries must focus on Nepal's infrastructure development.',
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			'short_content' => 'Following its “New Silk Roads” policies to improve connectivity with neighbouring countries in Asia, China proposed earlier this year to establish a “Trans-Himalaya Economic Region” to be led by India and itself.',
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			'short_content' => 'Regional cooperation presupposes land connectivity in order to benefit from the economics of geography. During the British Rule in India, South Asia, for all practical purposes, was one economy with freedom of movement of not just goods but also peoples and means of transportation. ',
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			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'To transform Nepal from a landlocked country to a land-linked nation, we have only two potential mediums available so far. One is the railway link and the other is the road transport.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 196 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '932',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '‘‘We need an alternative road  connection to China’’',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'We do see this possibility. Laos is an example for us. It’s also a landlocked country like Nepal. They have built major highways connecting the country with Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 197 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '955',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Growth Prospect',
			'image' => '20150909014359_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Nepal does have natural resources. They are of course our growth potentials but not necessarily the key element needed for our future economic growth. The key element is human resource; the brainpower, creativity of the people, entrepreneurship and innovation. If we can unlock our human potential,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 198 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '956',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Speakers' Voices',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The theme of this conclave which is ‘Unlocking Nepal’s Growth Prospects’ is very timely. It is often presumed that for fast economic growth, a country needs a good natural resource base.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 199 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1412',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '957',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energy Now',
			'image' => '20160125032417_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) are two energy monopolies of the state which, everyone agrees, have grown sick to the core and need serious overhauling. Both were created during the Panchayat system and have undergone little reforms since then. The NEA enjoys complete monopoly in the field of hydroelectricity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'magazine_category_id' => '21',
		'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Growth Prospect',
		'image' => '20150909014359_cover.jpg',
		'short_content' => '‘Nepal does have natural resources. They are of course our growth potentials but not necessarily the key element needed for our future economic growth. The key element is human resource; the brainpower, creativity of the people, entrepreneurship and innovation. If we can unlock our human potential,',
		'status' => true,
		'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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$img_width = (int) 160
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View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971
View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933
View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473
Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968
Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200
Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167
[main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117

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                  <?php echo $this->Html->link($issue_title['MagazineIssue']['title'], 
$viewFile = '/var/www/html/newbusinessage.com/app/View/MagazineArticles/category.ctp'
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	'logged_in' => false
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			'id' => '4536',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1285',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'E-commerce Ecosystem: Navigating Current Challenges and Shaping the Future',
			'image' => '20240811103452_2024-08-11 22.18.12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After experiencing significant growth in 2021 and 2022, most e-commerce ventures are now facing a slowdown in demand and sluggish revenue growth. During the Covid-induced lockdowns, demand for online services reached record highs as more people began to trust e-commerce platforms. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4492',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1284',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '20 years in the WTO (Assessing Economic Gains  and Missed Opportunities)',
			'image' => '20240708105857_2024-07-08 10.46.33.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4450',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1283',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Navigating Nepal's Insurance Landscape',
			'image' => '20240608112253_2024-06-08 23.13.35.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4388',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1282',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Braving The Challenges',
			'image' => '20240516015419_2024-05-16 12.39.42.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4340',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1281',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'DFIs in Nepal : Evolution, Impact and Prospects',
			'image' => '20240411094212_2024-04-11 21.40.58.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For a developing country like Nepal with a substantial demand for investment, development finance institutions (DFIs) are becoming an important alternative source of financing, especially for private sector capital growth.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 5 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4300',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1280',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Investment Potential',
			'image' => '20240313050107_2024-03-13 16.49.58.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Will Emerging Nepal Investment Summit 2024 Serve as a Catalyst to Position Nepal as a Premier Investment Destination?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
	(int) 6 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4257',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1279',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Private Healthcare Industry : Current Landscape and Future Challenges',
			'image' => '20240211094524_2024-02-11 21.17.07.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1278',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal’s Hotel Construction Boom',
			'image' => '20240108092215_2024-01-08 21.21.21.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1277',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'LDC Graduation & After',
			'image' => '20231213113611_2023-12-13 11.33.36.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 9 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4118',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1276',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal in Information and Digital Technology',
			'image' => '20231118082737_Cover Story_November 2023.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 10 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4079',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1275',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Cross-boarder Power Trade: Prospects and Challenges',
			'image' => '20231016093828_2023-10-15 13.56.14.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
	(int) 11 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4027',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1274',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Madhesh Prospects',
			'image' => '20230915053929_2023-09-15 17.23.18.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Madhesh Province has lots of potential, opportunities and resources to fulfil the development aspirations of the local people and to contribute in overall national prosperity. But there are also several challenges that have put the province in a situation of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 12 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3959',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1271',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Exporting Services To The World',
			'image' => '20230808014206_2023-08-08 13.41.29_16x9.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal's competitiveness in goods trade lags behind, there is an increasing urgency for both the government and the private sector to intensify their efforts in diversifying services exports. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 13 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3911',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1269',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Embracing the EV Culture',
			'image' => '20230611041349_ev.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The electric vehicle (EV) market in Nepal is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing consumer demand and a commitment to sustainable transportation. Despite frequently changing government policies and tax rates, the popularity of EVs is on the rise. The import figures reveal a surge in EV imports, with a 66.4% increase in the first nine months of the current fiscal year compared to the previous year. India is the largest supplier of EVs to Nepal, followed by China and South Korea. The government aims to transition to electric vehicles and reduce reliance on petroleum products. EVs offer advantages such as reduced emissions, cost savings, and utilization of Nepal's surplus electricity. However, challenges such as the lack of charging stations, high-interest rates, and inflation still exist. Innovative financing instruments and collaborative efforts between the government and private sector are crucial for promoting public electric mobility. To nurture the EV industry, policy and tax stability are essential for establishing a reliable and supportive environment for manufacturers and consumers.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 14 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3879',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1267',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The New Economy in Nepal',
			'image' => '20230602021920_bb.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the convergence of digital technologies and innovations, is reshaping various aspects of society, including the economy, culture, and individual lives. This revolution is marked by the blurring of lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, driven by technological advancements such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things.  While countries around the world are leveraging these new trends to their advantage, Nepal has been struggling to fully grasp and benefit from the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, there are efforts being made in certain sectors to adapt to this new techno-economic paradigm.  One key aspect of this revolution is the rise of tech companies that operate on digital platforms. Companies like Uber, Alibaba, and Oyo have achieved high valuations and transformed industries like transportation, retail, and hospitality without owning the physical assets traditionally associated with those sectors. These companies exemplify the potential for technology-driven disruption and innovation.  The rapid advancement of information technology has significantly changed the way people work, commute, communicate, and make payments. This shift has disrupted traditional business models, supply chains, and employment patterns. Economists believe that technology will drive the global economy, with the digital revolution unlocking tremendous opportunities.  Nepal, however, has been slow to embrace these changes. The country has not fully capitalized on industrialization in previous revolutions and risks falling behind once again. To catch up, latecomer economies like Nepal can adopt strategies of "leapfrogging," which involve skipping intermediate stages of industrialization and directly adopting advanced technologies. This could involve focusing on start-ups and service-based technologies rather than mass-based production.  Nepal has some strengths that can support its journey towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its young population, with a median age of 25 years, is quick to adopt new technologies as consumers and has the potential to innovate and create new opportunities. The gig economy, where young Nepali workers participate as freelancers or gig workers, has already shown potential in generating foreign currency earnings.  Efforts are being made in Nepal to make sense of the emerging trends and technologies. The Nepal Rastra Bank, for example, has initiated a feasibility study on the adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), positioning the country ahead in exploring the potential of digital currencies. The adoption of digital currency can revolutionize payments, increase financial inclusion, and democratize finance.  Moreover, sectors like agriculture in Nepal can benefit from the adoption of digital technologies. These technologies can increase efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in farming, thereby boosting the contribution of agriculture to the country's GDP. Digital platforms providing information on crop management, pest control, and weather information are already supporting farmers.  In conclusion, while Nepal may be somewhat isolated from the global trends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are efforts being made to adapt and benefit from digital innovations. By leveraging its young population, exploring strategies like leapfrogging, and embracing technologies in sectors like agriculture, Nepal can position itself to harness the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3898',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1267',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Business Age : New Economy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The passage discusses the negative impact of the Maoist insurgency on Nepal's economy. It highlights the decline in tourist arrivals, the destruction of telecom infrastructure, and the adverse effects on various sectors such as education and health. The ongoing violence has disrupted social services in remote areas, leading to the desertion of health posts and the fleeing of teachers. The passage emphasizes the importance of peace and security for the country's socio-economic development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 16 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3853',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1266',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AILING ECONOMY',
			'image' => '20230415084151_Clipboard30.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s economy is passing through one of its worst phases in history. Most of the economic indicators point to a looming crisis. While the government is scrambling to bridge the gap between its revenue and recurring expenditure, the private sector's confidence is waning.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 17 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3806',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1265',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FOREST Versus FURNITURE',
			'image' => '20230306025811_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 18 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3780',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1264',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Going GIG',
			'image' => '20230210073533_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The gig economy, also known as the sharing economy, refers to the labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work rather than permanent jobs. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 19 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3748',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1262',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Parliament’s Priority on Legal Reforms',
			'image' => '20230108053425_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali economy is currently experiencing one of its worst periods. Most economic indicators suggest that a crisis is looming. Economic growth, which averaged 4.9% between 2009 and 2019, contracted to 2.2% in 2020 for the first time in 30 years.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 20 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3725',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1261',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Extractive State, Costly Government Overreach',
			'image' => '20221211081823_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Despite its failure and poor performance in sectors where it is involved, the government seeks to expand its reach and role. The government is perpetuating its exploitative and extractive character through heavy taxation, discretionary power and overregulation, stymieing business innovation and growth in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 21 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3698',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1258',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FRANCHISING IN NEPAL : GROWING MARKET, ZERO REGULATION',
			'image' => '20221114075414_Clipboard22.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The lifestyle of Nepali people has undergone an immense transformation over the past decade or so. From having meals at home to eating out, Nepali society’s preference for food has changed a lot.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 22 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3655',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'POWER OF PRIVATE EQUITY',
			'image' => '20221017073524_00000.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While there might be many factors that kill any business idea, lack of financing opportunity to bankroll the business has been a major reason that compels many Nepali entrepreneurs to abandon their business ideas.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 23 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3656',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''PE/VC Helps on Meeting Investment Gap'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'PE/VC is not a completely new term in Nepal. Even though the government has recently formalized it, the investors with a large fund has been investing under the PE/VC model. Back in 2012/2013, a few companies have started investing in an informal way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 24 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3627',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1239',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A BATTLE OF CHOICES : The Merger Dilemma in the Insurance Sector',
			'image' => '20220912121130_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Six years ago, Beema Samiti - the insurance regulatory authority of Nepal - decided to issue operating licences to 10 new insurance companies. The decision to add a whopping number of insurance companies at that time took many by surprise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 25 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3591',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' REMITTANCE : Risky Reliance',
			'image' => '20220808121700_Clipboard13AA.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What if Nepal either stops receiving remittances or there is a significant decline in the transfer of hard-earned money by Nepali workers abroad? This question—even hypothetical—should give our policymakers a chill. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 26 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3593',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'High Transfer Cost Not Only Reason Discouraging Use of Formal Channels',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal receives a significant share of remittances to GDP every year. The government data shows that the total remittance inflow translated into 22.53% of the total GDP in 2020/21. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 27 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3594',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Can Remittances Support Development in Nepal?',
			'image' => '20220808123341_12121.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Out-migration from Nepal—a landlocked and least- developed country—has surged in the last two decades. Now, a third of households has at least one member abroad and Nepal has one of the largest remittances to GDP ratios (24%  in  2018). ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 28 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3595',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Covid-19 and Impacts on Remittance Flows to Nepal',
			'image' => '20220808123702_Clipboard82.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After the surge of the global pandemic, a slew of lockdown measures were imposed to contain the virus. There were multiple predictions suggesting that the flow of remittance would dwindle in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 29 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3596',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Will Nepali Businesses Get Credit?',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'This time liquidity issues or so called C/D ratio (capping at 90%) of Banking System has really prolonged and Businesses, more particularly SME businesses are suffocating due to unavailability of credit. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 30 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3542',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ban on Import of Automobiles, Misguided Move',
			'image' => '20220704014859_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The automobile industry is interconnected with all gamut of the Nepali economy. The decision of the government regarding restriction on the import of vehicles will have a long-term effect on the government and people alike in the future.',
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			'title' => ''The Automobile Sector is Going Through One of the Most Difficult Times in the History'',
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			'short_content' => 'Prior to Covid-19 pandemic, the vehicle sales growth was very good. However, the pandemic dealt a blow to the auto mobile sector like it did to other sectors of the economy in the country.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ' 'Restriction on a Part of Trade is Not a Solution'',
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			'short_content' => 'The government has restricted the import of ICE vehicles for more than 2 months. It is sad to see that the government still looks at the four-wheelers as a luxury rather than a necessity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ''Restriction Impacted the Entire Motor Sector'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'What should really be understood is that vehicle is now no more a luxury but a necessity and needs to be reclassified. Vehicle to what extent is a luxury?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'title' => ' 'Automobiles are Not Luxury Products'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The restriction imposed by the government on the import of automobiles has affected the business of the entire automobile sector. If you look at the scenario, the automobile industry is one of the major contributors to the country's revenue.',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => ' 'The Effect of Double Restriction on Loans, Vehicles Piled up at Birgunj Customs'',
			'image' => '20220704021213_Clipboard26.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government's austerity measures and lack of liquidity to reduce the pressure on foreign exchange reserves have had an impact on vehicle imports.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'CEMENT : Eyeing Exports',
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			'short_content' => 'While the manufacturing sector is on a sharp decline, the cement industry is experiencing a boom in recent years that is now eying the nearby markets for export as the domestic demands fail to keep up with the production capacity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : An Untapped Opportunity for Nepal',
			'image' => '20220406122324_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the last few years, medical tourism has become a buzz word, fashionably coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling to another country for medical care.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ' "We Need More Trained Manpower to Promote Medical Tourism"',
			'image' => '20220406032627_234.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Dr. Prativa Pandey obtained her medical degree from New Delhi, India and did post graduation in Internal Medicine from Boston, USA. She worked for 10 years in the Boston area and returned to Nepal in 1993.',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Policy Change a Must for Viability of Medical Tourism',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In a broader sense, Nepalis currently spend billions of rupees on treatment abroad due to a lack of adequate health infrastructure. However, there is a high potential for medical tourism in Nepal. A sizable number of Indians come to Nepal to Tilganga for eye treatment for cataracts.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : A Magical Win-Win',
			'image' => '20220406104516_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Medical tourism is simply a joint domain of two domains, as suggested by its name. Renamed "medical value travel," it is described as a purposeful cross-country visit in order to obtain treatment or any form of healthcare service. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'Leading Asian Countries for Medical Tourism',
			'image' => '20220406105654_11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many people in the world have started travelling to different parts of the world spending huge amount of money for medical treatment. These people will be accompanied by their family and friends who, apart from taking care of their near and dear, also visit the touristic destinations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'Nepal has Tremendous Potentials',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal as a medical tourism destination has tremendous potential. I am saying this because of my recent experience when I was in an Indian restaurant in the United States',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'Travel for Wellness',
			'image' => '20220406111138_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For ages, people used to travel considerable distances for medical and wellness treatment. During Roman times people sought out spas and thermal baths. Romans constructed resorts with thermal spas in entire Roman provinces. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'title' => 'Grey Tourism on the Rise',
			'image' => '20220406111912_1213.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Grey tourism is a specific niche market that caters towards older travellers. This group represents the largest, fastest growing, richest consumer market on the planet, accounting for half of earth’s consumer spending.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'title' => 'PROBLEMS OF PLENTY : Power Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => '20220312063859_CS.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s power sector has undergone tremendous development in recent years. Most importantly, the power cuts (locally known as load-shedding) have now become history.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => ' “Foreign investors feel it is difficult to work in Nepal”',
			'image' => '20220312064632_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ashish Garg is the Vice President of the Independent Power Producers Association Nepal (IPPAN) and Convenor of the Energy Committee of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'Economic REFORMS 2.0',
			'image' => '20220213084154_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal is still to complete the first generation economic reforms that began in early 1990s or even before that, discussions have already begun on the need for second generation reforms. Is it the right time for second generation reforms? Where exactly are the reforms needed? Nubiz team has tried to explore.',
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			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'title' => 'IPR Frustration',
			'image' => '20220108030745_Clipboard31.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'From Nike sneakers to Louis Vuitton handbags, Nepali consumers can easily purchase any item in the domestic market at a price that is nowhere close to their real or actual price. These knockoff products that closely resemble the global brands have long been flooding the market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 49 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Insurance industry’s response to Covid-19',
			'image' => '20211211085234_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the pandemic ravaged the tourism and leisure sectors such as hotels and travel businesses, industrial and financial sectors were also severely affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus and subsequent containment measures introduced by the government.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'UNCOVERING HIDDEN MONEY',
			'image' => '20211113075816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government is asking the private sector and investors to invest in certain priority sectors with a promise that it would not seek the source of income for two years. While the government wants to leverage the hidden cash for the country's development during the crisis',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'SILVER LINING IN THE TOURISM SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090234_6.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In 2019, about 1.2 million tourists came to Nepal, and the income of tourism and hospitality businesses increased to good levels. Private sector investment also increased significantly in the sector targeting the upcoming Visit Nepal 2020. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'THE WAY FORWARD FOR INSURANCE SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090503_7.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance companies are risk managers. The relationship between their business and risk goes in one direction. As the risk increases, so does the insurance business, and when there is no risk, there is no need for insurance.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SIGNS OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH',
			'image' => '20211006090638_8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali private sector has faced various challenges in every era. In the past, we went through a heap of problems including the worsening of labor relations, up to 18 hours of power cuts, and the 2015 earthquake and border blockade',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'Under-construction Projects Should be Expedited for Quick Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090803_5.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Advancing infrastructure development by considering economic activities and sources available in the country can help improve the economy. However, the priority of political leaders and lawmakers in their constituencies has cast a shadow over our real need for development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Improvement Needed in Most Areas for Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090948_4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Due to the adverse situation created by the pandemic and the working style of the government, the country's economic scenario is not looking encouraging. The ‘white paper’ issued by the coalition government and the latest macroeconomic report of the central bank have also painted a bleak picture.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
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			'title' => 'Generating 750 MW of Electricity can Add 1 Percent to Nepal’s GDP',
			'image' => '20211006091120_3.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, agriculture has always been considered as the main basis of economic development which is wrong. We need to look towards countries like China and Ethiopia and see how they leaped from agriculture to other sectors such as manufacturing and services',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 57 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'title' => 'Banking Sector is the Mainstay of the Country's Economic Revival',
			'image' => '20211006091240_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Most of the sectors were affected by the lockdowns and prohibitory orders. However, the banking sector was not affected much.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'title' => 'Maintaining fiscal stability and generating employment is important',
			'image' => '20211006091354_1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The financial sector and capital market have performed exceptionally well even when other sectors were reeling with the sharp economic slowdown. Amidst the pandemic, digitalisation of financial services gained a big momentum. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'RECOVERING Nepal Inc.',
			'image' => '20211006091621_Clipboard48.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal's economy is slowly recovering from the unprecedented crisis brought on by the global pandemic. The signs are promising, but much more effort is required to face the challenges along the way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'title' => 'MCC Nepal Compact – An insight',
			'image' => '20210905082515_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Compact is based on the principles of accountability, transparency, and mutual prosperity and will open up a new chapter in the infrastructure development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'title' => 'MCC Compact : Costly Delay to Nepal’s Economic Development',
			'image' => '20210905083137_Clipboard47.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Power politics, controversies and unnecessary indecisiveness over the MCC Compact is not only making the fate of the USD 500-million grant for Nepal uncertain but also risks hurting the country’s ambition to transform the economy by exporting its hydroelectricity in the lack of adequate transmission infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'NRB Needs to Open Licenses for New Development Banks',
			'image' => '20210807050907_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When the new financial setup under the federal system was under preparation, a policy was formulated to encourage commercial banks to expand their presence in all the 753 local levels of the country. However, development banks were excluded as the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO) ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 63 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
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			'title' => ' LIBERALISING the Licensing Regime',
			'image' => '20210807051607_Clipboard49.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The time has come to cut the bureaucratic red tape and liberalise the licensing regime for a better business environment in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'title' => 'Riding THE BOOM',
			'image' => '20210630085625_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Coronavirus raging across the country not only sickened hundreds of thousands of people and claimed over 8,558 lives across the country but also brought economic activity almost to a standstill for months.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energising EXPORTS',
			'image' => '20210531021546_Clipboard10.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Improvement in value chains generally leads to production of sophisticated products. These products cost more but there are customers who do not hesitate to pay premium because of the quality. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1022',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE BIG MELT',
			'image' => '20210501022954_cover story 4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In the first week of April, Community Eye Hospital in Hetauda suddenly started seeing a surge in the number of patients. The hospital, which used to handle around 100 to 150 patients a day, was receiving around 300 visitors on a daily basis, with almost all of them complaining about irritation in their eyes.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1021',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'WANTED : ELECTRICITY BUYERS',
			'image' => '20210330083821_Cover Story 1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chameliya Hydroelectric Project. The name conjures up images of a long-delayed hydropower project with huge cost overruns. The 30-megawatt project built by state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) started construction in January 2008 and was originally scheduled to come online by May 2011. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 68 => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Construction Materials INDUSTRY NOW',
			'image' => '20210310102838_Clipboard19.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when many industries in Nepal are still reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with market demand yet to rise to pre-pandemic levels, the construction materials industry is going through a different situation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
	(int) 69 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2932',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1019',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE CHINA CONUNDRUM',
			'image' => '20210207093114_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Like many traders who import goods from or export goods to China via land, Bed Bahadur Shrestha has become accustomed to a slew of problems at the Nepal-China border crossings. These problems range from wage hike demands made by porters who load and unload goods to intermittent disruptions in movement of cargo trucks due to landslides on rough Himalayan terrain. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 70 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2863',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1018',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' THE SME IMPERATIVE : What would it take to help SMEs get back on their feet',
			'image' => '20210119022843_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the past nine months, exports of handicrafts have dipped dramatically as the international demand for merchandise goods has been decimated due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) reports a 70-80 percent fall in exports and an over 80 percent decline in domestic ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 71 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1017',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Facing the CHALLENGES',
			'image' => '20201219071252_cc.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The coronavirus outbreak, which engulfed the globe after starting from the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, is having a multitude of impacts to women entrepreneurship in Nepal which was showing promising signs prior to the Covid-19 crisis.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 72 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2810',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1016',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Nepal’s Agribusiness Transformation',
			'image' => '20201109032251_Clipboard02.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For Nepal, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been severe and it is unlike past international crises when the events had little to no impact on the Himalayan country. But even in these gloomy times when the threat of the deadly pathogen looms large over the health of the citizens and the country’s economy, a silver ',
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			'title' => 'BANKING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19',
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			'short_content' => 'The four-month-long nationwide lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of cronavirus from late March to mid-July of this year and its subsequent impacts on the economic activities has put a dent on earnings of banks and financial institutions. Of the 27 commercial banks, only five banks have reported increase in profit in the last fiscal year ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Time for Banks to Manage Their Books Smartly',
			'image' => '20200917010658_Clipboard17.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali banking sector, in the last 20 years, had to grapple with major disturbances including the Maoist insurgency, 2015 Earthquake, and Indian economic blockade. But the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic has been the most challenging. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2732',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On Banking in the Time of Covid-19',
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			'short_content' => 'The Monetary Policy for FY2020/21 has attempted to address many aspects of the economic slowdown brought by the four-month long lockdown. The arrangements encouraged business community members who were in a state of disarray due to the pandemic-induced recession. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2706',
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			'title' => 'The Truth Behind Nepal-India Trade Relations',
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			'short_content' => 'Whenever Nepal-India bilateral relations come under strain, Nepal's economic dependence with the southern neighbour is often highlighted. Indian experts say the open border, transit access through Indian land and seaports, foreign direct investment from India, and India's dominating share in Nepal's foreign trade has benefited Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2682',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1013',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'HOTEL INDUSTRY : Survival for Existence and Beyond',
			'image' => '20200720033531_Newbusinessage_cover Design_Aug_2 - 2nd - Remove.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The series of worldwide unfortunate events over the last six months have dealt a massive blow to the Nepali hotel sector, which has an estimated investment of Rs 100 billion, with both international and domestic travel falling to zero, particularly after governments across the world rushed to impose lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus starting from mid-March.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2650',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1012',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dr Khatiwada's Third Budget :  Will it Revive the Covid-19 Stricken Economy?',
			'image' => '20200630094753_Clipboard09.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2020/21 was perhaps one of the most anticipated ones, in recent years. The fact that Finance Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada was presenting the budget against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic made the budget one to watch out for. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2631',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1011',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Covid-19 Impact on Economy : Counting the Cost and the Road to Recovery  ',
			'image' => '20200524063327_civerstory.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'In normal times, Nepal gets over 300,000 foreign visitors during the spring tourist season of March-May with the occupancy rate of hotels soaring to over 60 percent keeping the hospitality industry busy. This time, however, it is different with hotels practically empty and no one working.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '2618',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1010',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'NEPALI STARTUP ECOSYSTEM : The Growth So Far & The Future',
			'image' => '20200512035159_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The last two months have been quite eventful for Nepali startups. First, Foodmandu, Nepal’s largest food delivery platform, has secured its second-round investment from Team Ventures, a private equity (PE) firm. Then, Health at Home, a healthcare services portal, also got funding from Business Oxygen (BO2),',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'id' => '2585',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1009',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A YEAR AFTER NEPAL INVESTMENT SUMMIT',
			'image' => '20200320085324_nis.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his address to the House of Representatives on February 14, to mark the current government’s second year, highlighted how successful his administration has been in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1009',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on A year After Nepal Investment Summit',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The present government came to power with the slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’. Happiness is a vague concept; however, material happiness at least requires overall improvement in the standards of living, economic, social and environmental security',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2750',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1006',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' New Face of Women Entrepreneurship',
			'image' => '20201010030357_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Himalayan country is currently witnessing attempts made by women to break through the corporate and entrepreneurial glass ceiling to become master of their own destiny which was elusive for them a couple of decades ago. It is promising in a sense that Nepali women, who were largely confined to household works in the past, have taken charge of their own future. I',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '2780',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Message from President Xi’s Nepal Visit',
			'image' => '20201013014927_sdsd.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Jiang Zemin visited Nepal in 1996, China was barely able make it to the list of top ten economies and was trying to establish itself as the low-cost factory of the world. In 2019, when Xi Jinping came to the Himalayan nation for the first presidential visit by a Chinese President in 23 years,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'id' => '2781',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CHINA FIXATION : WILL POLITICAL BONHOMIE TRANSLATE INTO ECONOMIC GAIN FOR NEPAL?',
			'image' => '20201013024850_China Grapix.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Kathmandu in the second week of October, the first official visit by a Chinese President in 23 years, many eyes were on him wondering if he would announce the construction of the much-hyped Kerung-Kathmandu Trans-Himalayan Railway and how large a financial assistance package China would offer to Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'id' => '2540',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => '20200226125110_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Clearing House Limited (NCHL), in the month of Poush (December/January), reported that monthly transactions on its connectIPS, an electronic payment system, reached Rs 12.05 billion. The size of the transaction highlights two things. Digital payment is growing in acceptance among ordinary Nepalis and people are getting connected to the broader fintech (financial technology) disruptions taking place the world over. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2541',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Technology is enabling an ecosystem where customers are acquired and served differently than traditional ways. While designing a digital strategy, it is important to understand how customers are acquired and how they are served',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'id' => '2901',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1003',
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			'title' => 'CEMENT INDUSTRY WOES : How to Stop it Going from Boom to Bust',
			'image' => '20210116080717_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when the country’s industrial productivity has mostly remained subdued, it is a matter of great pride to note that Nepal has become self-reliant in cement production. Over the last few years, this essential construction material has been witnessing a boom in business which, historically, only a few industries in Nepal had gone through.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '2881',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1001',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Big Merger : NRB’s Merger Cane and Nepali Banking',
			'image' => '20210115023054_131.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In what looked like students being summoned into the headmaster’s office for a caning, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on June 27 invited chairmen and CEOs of banks and financial institutions to Hotel Yak and Yeti, a five-star property in downtown Kathmandu,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2833',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1000',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Has the Business Climate Changed?',
			'image' => '20210112124401_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ever since KP Sharma Oli assumed the prime ministerial post in February 2018, for the second time, he and several ministers of his cabinet have repeatedly expressed in foreign as well as domestic forums that ‘Nepal is open for business with lucrative investment opportunities’, and that ‘foreign as well as domestic investors should invest in the country without any feeling of hesitation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2511',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Hotels in Nepal : THE NEW WAVE',
			'image' => '20190511105700_Clipboard37.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After seven months, it will be Visit Nepal 2020. The goal of this second national tourism promotion campaign (The first was VNY 1998) is to welcome two million foreign visitors. The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign aims to achieve twice as many travellers than the goal set for Tourism Year 2011 and four times bigger than that of Visit Nepal Year 1998. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2512',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Technology Meets Hospitality',
			'image' => '20190511111432_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In this digital era, when contact with technology is inevitable, any form of business can create disruption in the industry with the wise and clever use of technology. The hospitality industry, till a few years ago, was human intensive with every big and small player striving to provide quality services and amenities through its vast resource pool.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2513',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Hotel Boom in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Hoteliers are very much prepared; today we have enough hotels to accommodate 2.5 million guests in term of rooms, beds, food and entertainment. Eventually, by combining all categories of hotels, i.e. stars hotels, resorts, lodges, guest houses and even the homestay facilities, we have the strength in numbers to make Visit Nepal 2020 a grand success.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2481',
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			'title' => 'ICTC GROUP’S NEW GEN : TAKING OVER THE REINS',
			'image' => '20190412013409_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Any transition from the old generation to the new comes with both opportunities and challenges. In a family-run business, this becomes more evident due to the complexities in managing various aspects such as maintaining the values of the family, incorporating ideas of the new generation, and most importantly the succession planning, factors that are considered essential to the success of the businesses and for charting their direction for the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '2449',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '996',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Mutual Funds in Nepal : Way Ahead',
			'image' => '20190317123055_Clipboard04.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The development or growth or expansion of the capital market in Nepal has been talked about a lot. However, these discussions have made little real impact.  Thus, the Nepali capital market is operating in an ecosystem where many components are entirely absent.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'The SSF Challenge',
			'image' => '20190222082452_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'On November 27, 2018, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli launched the ambitious, contribution-based Social Security Fund (SSF) claiming it as the ‘beginning of a new era’ amid lavish fanfare. “It is a historical achievement for us. The launch of the scheme will create a better work environment in the country,” said the Prime Minister unveiling the welfare scheme',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Too Big to Fail : Saving NAC from the Claws of Greed',
			'image' => '20190122020426_Clipboard12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In August 2016, when the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) decided to start process of purchasing two Airbus wide-body aircraft for long-haul flights, a bright light of hope for a revival of the struggling national flag carrier was seen at the horizon.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'How Export of Services can Balance Nepal’s Trade',
			'image' => '20181223111245_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Global trade, today, is undergoing a transformation with the balance fast shifting towards trade in services from trade in goods. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the governing body for international trade, trade in services now accounts for two-thirds of the global trade in value added terms.',
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			'title' => 'Banking Strategies and Disruptions : Nepali Banking Industry’s New Direction',
			'image' => '20181116022537_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => '81  years after Nepal Bank Limited was established as the first commercial bank in the country, the Nepali banking sector has seemingly come to a crossroads. From issues related to liquidity management, financial inclusion, productive sector lending, CSR obligations and sustainable business practices',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Distorting the Private Sector',
			'image' => '20181007011305_Clipboard38.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The country’s private sector is increasingly turning to easier but more financially rewarding ventures like trading and partnering with the public sector on procurements and extraction of resources.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Problems in New Tax Arrangements and Taxation Reform',
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			'short_content' => 'The first federal government budget indicates that the government has taken a backward momentum in terms of taxation. There has been 5 percent customs buty increment on the impart of agricultural commodities. Such used to be levied also in the part but was abandoned long time back. Likewise, tariffs on the import of many commodities have been increased. To stop illegal imports of goods and commodities, the government should have reduced the tariffs. ',
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			'title' => 'Indirect Taxes in Nepal : Challenges and Trends',
			'image' => '20180910022816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'According to Harvard economist Daron Acemoglu, tax revenue as percentage of GDP is generally higher among countries with higher per capita income. Nepal is an anomaly in the global trend. For a country with modest economy, Nepal displays a strong state capacity for taxation.',
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Taxation Transition: Finding the Ideal Tax Template',
			'image' => '20180910030853_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'During his recent trip to the United States to participate in the annual meeting of The World Bank, Minister for Finance Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada presented Nepal as the most competitive country in South Asia in terms of corporate income tax.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'BBIN : Will Sub-regionalism Work?',
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			'short_content' => 'Across the world, markets have enjoyed tremendous success by embracing free trade regimes within regional markets with connectivity as the nucleus of such practices of economic integration. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the European Union (EU) bloc is a vivid example. Within regionalism, countries have even experimented with sub-regionalism to realise the economic potential of underdeveloped pockets.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Connectivity : Trailblazer of Regional Integration',
			'image' => '20180806025500_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Trade and economic integration at the bilateral and regional levels is gaining ground in the wake of the faltering global trading system. The looming dissension against the rules of international trade by the US administration not only debilitated the functioning of the World Trade Organization (WTO) but also reckoned to the re-emergence of old mercantilist theory,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '988',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Regional Integration',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a Jaipur (India) based NGO working in the areas of trade, economy and environment, organised a regional policy dialogue on “Connectivity Imperatives in the Bay of Bengal Region” in New Delhi on May 2 and 3.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Breaking Away from the Zero-sum Paradigm​',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The foreign policy of every country is guided by national interests and priorities. In the context of the growing Nepal-China relationship, it is essential for Nepal to maintain a sound relationship with both India and China in order to ensure success of its foreign policy.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dancing with the Dragon : The Road Ahead to Nepal-China Economic Relations',
			'image' => '20180706031803_Clipboard104.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A previously little-known locality of Jhapa spreading across areas of Kamal Rural Municipality and Gauradaha and Damak municipalities has caught national attention due to its high economic significance. Located about 9 kilometres from the Damak section of the East-West Highway,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Economics of Sports : More than Fan Fever',
			'image' => '20180615095940_Clipboard54.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Behind this worldwide football euphoria and the curiosity about who will lift the trophy, are the economic benefits the host country, the governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), event sponsors, brands, broadcasters, advertisers, marketers and numerous other businesses, big and small, will reap from the quadrennial sporting event. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2164',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Economics of Sports',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Sports is also an indicator of a country’s societal and economic development. The performance of players in international competitions reflects the state of development. Nepal has not reached the stage where we can execute plans related to sports in well managed ways.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2131',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A Win-Win Strategy for Liquidity Management',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal needs massive investment for its economic growth. We should be very careful while designing economic policies that must support the long-term economic growth objectives of the government. The current level of investment, though meeting the annual target set by the government,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2132',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Credit Crunch : Beyond a Wake Up Call For Banking Sector',
			'image' => '20180514032903_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Times are hard for Nepali banks and financial institutions (BFIs). They have been struggling with the ongoing shortage of loanable funds which started in December 2017.  From construction of hydropower projects, industrial expansion, real estate and housing transactions to sales of vehicles, many commercial, infrastructure development and manufacturing activities have been hit by the problem.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2133',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management  1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The shortage of loanable funds has been caused by several factors. The outflow of Nepal is for overseas work opportunities has declined in recent time which can be attributed to the recent political developments that has been signaling political stability in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2134',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, there is a tendency of revolving around the same issues instead of searching for the options to come out of the troubles. We have been continuously hearing about issues like sluggishness in capital expenditure, swelling trade deficit and distributive budget since 2048 BS.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2101',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '984',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal’s Top 30 Business Houses : Leading the Way',
			'image' => '20180403103039_Clipboard69.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'This article discusses the top 30 Nepali business houses, highlighting their history, growth, diversification, management practices, political connections, controversies, and future expansion plans. These business houses have played a significant role in Nepal's economy, venturing into various sectors such as banking, insurance, tourism, hospitality, health, education, IT, real estate, housing, and hydropower. The article emphasizes the benefits of diversified business operations for these groups, allowing them to withstand market shocks and navigate political and economic uncertainties. It also mentions the generational transition within these family businesses and their increasing engagement with politics. Despite controversies and allegations, these business houses continue to thrive and have optimistic plans for further investments and market development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 116 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2077',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Securing Intellectual Property Rights',
			'image' => '20180312112200_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property Right (IPR) plays a vital role for economies to thrive in today’s competitive world.  Countries have been adopting rigorous legal and technical measures to secure the intellectual properties (IPs) which they consider very important to attract investments and also to secure their national interests.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 117 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2078',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Trademark Administration in Nepal',
			'image' => '20180313095356_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A  trademark often referred to as a ‘creation of the mind’ is an intellectual property. UK law defines a trademark as “a sign capable of being represented graphically which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of another undertaking” ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 118 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2079',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Intellectual Property Rights ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property (IP) is an essential tool for the economic development of any country. Four factors that drive the engine of IP smoothly are creation, promotion, protection and use of IP. In Nepal, there is no dearth of creative activities coming out from academic and research organisations as well as technical professionals who produce literary, artistic, musical and scientific creations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 119 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2050',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Changing HR Dynamics in Nepal  ',
			'image' => '20180220104009_Clipboard50.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'There is a growing sense of realization among Nepali employers that focusing only on activities including production, sales and marketing, for example, are largely insufficient to meet the organisational objectives and to mitigate the existing and future challenges.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 120 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2051',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The traditional mindset still prevails in many organisations when it comes to human resource management. It sees people as liabilities whereas the modern philosophy of HRM takes people as the most important asset in the organization.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 121 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2052',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The frustration of people is generally directed towards the lack of career growth opportunities. People keep on working but are unaware about the next step for growth. This is so partly because many organisations have failed to design clear career paths for their employees and communicate with them. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 122 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2020',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Analyzing Manufacturing Prospects',
			'image' => '20180121115146_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Economies have thrived expanding their manufacturing base by reforming industrial policies, diversifying outputs, scaling-up production processes and systems, attracting global investments and upgrading connectivity and power-supplies. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 123 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2021',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Manufacturing Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Cost of doing business in Nepal has gone up for everybody whether exporters, importers or domestic-based producers. For the export market, fulfilling business commitments in time and remaining competitive is difficult. It may diminish our preferential value. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 124 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Health  for All : Accelerating Universal Healthcare Coverage in Nepal',
			'image' => '20171223103203_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Access to healthcare for the average Nepali has significantly improved in the last three decades. The increasing availability of better healthcare services in the country has led to a rise in almost all health related indicators.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 125 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1998',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Healthcare Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The main challenge in the health sector is that people have to bear all the expenses of the health care in Nepal. Opening such a big institution definitely brings more patients and causes more stress. The patients are more stressed when they have to pay more than their potential.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 126 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1966',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '979',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Startup Ecosystem : Is it the Next Growth Engine for Nepal?',
			'image' => '20171113111636_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? How can a small venture starting from scratch take centre-stage in the world of business? How can young people realise their ideas in business to bring innovative solutions and positive changes to society? ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 127 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1927',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Buddha in Business Management',
			'image' => '20171008101524_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been over 2,500 years since Gautam Buddha enlightened the world with his teachings encouraging people to follow the path of non-violence, truthfulness and righteousness. More than two and a half millennia later, the world continues to remember his teachings in the form of Buddhism,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 128 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1936',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“We keep coexistence in mind”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'One requires honesty and credibility to run a successful business. We at CE try to strive for this as much as possible; we avoid taking any bad action against anyone. There is no unhealthy competition between us and our competitors nor do we have any negativity towards them.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 129 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1937',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Planning, organisational management and motivation are main components of Buddhist management”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The universal definition of management is to manage tactfully. In Buddhism too, the meaning is not that different. It refers to management of life. Buddha’s main concern was to understand how to manage the life that we live, in order to be able to gain the maximum benefit from our lives. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 130 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1919',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '25 Years of Unilever Nepal : Charting New Heights in FMCG',
			'image' => '20170914013755_coverstory.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been a glorious 25 years of Unilever in Nepal. Unilever Nepal Limited (UNL) has seen several ups and downs in this journey, ultimately establishing itself as perhaps the largest FMCG manufacturer in the country. Profitability along with positive impact on society and the environment has been at the core of the business model of UNL. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 131 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1920',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Our vision is to grow the business whilst decoupling environmental footprint from the company’s growth and to increase positive social impact”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali FMCG sector is a mixture of importers and unorganised players who mostly infringe the IPRs and also don’t comply with local rules in letter or spirit. To accelerate the FMCG sector’s growth, Nepal requires big investments in local manufacturing, marketing, capability of people and distribution infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 132 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1884',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Robust Business of FMCGs ',
			'image' => '20170820113716_c.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'FMCG sector has championed the Nepali manufacturing establishment. Now with the right set of policies and an environment conducive to business, Nepali FMCG brands aim  high to take on the international market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 133 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1885',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali FMCG Sector',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'With the growing income of the lower and middle class people, the market is growing. Many FMCG products are somewhat essential in nature, particularly the products with market brands. All FNCG companies in the country are doing very well. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 134 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1855',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => '20170712094552_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Known to many as ‘a country of villages’ just a few decades ago, Nepal is witnessing a rapid shift in rural and urban demographics. The change in demographics is attributed to the internal migration that has speeded up over the last 3-4 decades. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 135 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1856',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Planned urbanisation has become a priority development agenda for the government and political parties lately. This is because of the rapid urbanisation due to the sharp increase in the urban population.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 136 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1807',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economics of Insurance',
			'image' => '20170614095308_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance is familiar to the general people of insurance of car, buildings and contents and life insurance.  Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 137 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1818',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Insurance Sector&nbsp;</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Towards Golden Days</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170615100049_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The interest of general public towards insurance over the last few years has grown as more Nepalis are looking to get insured.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 138 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1785',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT<br /> Some Policy Issues</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170512120504_co.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Things have been progressing quite encouragingly following the March 2-3 mega-event that was the Nepal Investment Summit 2017 organised by the Ministry of Industry. Investors, mostly foreign, expressed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest a total of USD 13.52 billion, in various  sectors in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 139 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1795',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Foreign Direct  Investment',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal has entered into a new era of policy reform. We call it the second generation reform.  We have seen the changes over the past five to six months in this regard. The government has brought different policies and Acts to improve the investment climate in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 140 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1762',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>INVESTMENT IN NEPAL<br /> Materialising the Opportunities</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170424091033_c0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Of late, both the public and private sectors seem to have realised the importance of infrastructure growth and investment. While the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), a major umbrella organisation of the Nepali private sector organised a mega event titled Nepal Infrastructure Summit (NIS) 2017 on February 19, ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 141 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1763',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Infrastructure Summit : Evidence Based Advocacy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Infrastructure has various effects on an economy. Primarily, infrastructure stimulates economic development by encouraging production activities. It produces various crowding in effects, including in production activities and quality of life for households, which thus benefits the entire society. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 142 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1764',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“It is important to engage domestic investors in bringing foreign investments”',
			'image' => '20170424095943_c00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The undertaking was aimed at informing potential foreign investors about the recent reforms at the policy level and conveying the message that Nepal is a suitable destination for doing business. On this, the participants signed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest in potential sectors. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 143 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1765',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Investment in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Lack of basic infrastructures has forced us to witness economic growth averaging 4 percent over the last one decade. The infrastructure gap has directly hurt development activities. As we are aspiring to reach the level of middle-income nations by 2030,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 144 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1735',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE IRON IS HOT!',
			'image' => '20170326103544_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal which used to be mostly dependent on the import of iron and steel construction materials over a decade ago now seems to be on the way to become self-sufficient in such products. Steel bars, rods and galvanized corrugated sheets for roofing are the major items produced in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 145 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1736',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Iron and Steel Industries in Nepal ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The industrialisation of Nepal gained momentum after the political changes in 1990. The liberal and open market policies helped the industries to grow. Nevertheless, the Maoist insurgency put a major roadblock in the pace of the country’s industrialisation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 146 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1706',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '50 YEARS OF NEPALI TOURISM',
			'image' => '20170224030513_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The years since 2015 are considered to be historic for the Nepali tourism sector.  The years marked the golden jubilee celebrations of some important hotels and tourism related organisations that have been pivotal for the institutional development of the tourism sector in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 147 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1707',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Tourism Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Airlines are essential to the tourism industry of any country. Maintaining quality of services in the airlines is important to ensure a healthy inflow of tourists. The quality of an airliner doesn't just depend on serving good food and providing a glass of champagne.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 148 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1685',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENTING THE GROWTH',
			'image' => '20170122032905_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The word ‘self-sufficiency’ has become a well worn cliché when it comes to industrial development in Nepal. Given the steep decline in industrial activities over the past one and half decades due to various obstructing elements, it has become very difficult for many manufacturing sector companies',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 149 => array(
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			'short_content' => 'Nepali cement manufacturers started their business at a very hard time during the Maoist insurgency around 15-16 years ago. They are still facing a lot of problems. Nevertheless, gradually with the increasing market the number ',
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			'title' => 'CSR: HOW DOING GOOD FOR SOCIETY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS',
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			'short_content' => 'Many companies in Nepal are engaged in various activities of social importance. From education and health, livelihood of marginalized communities, infrastructure development in rural areas, increasing inclusiveness, preservation of heritage or ecological conservation,  MNCs, BFIs, business houses 
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			'title' => 'CSR Initiatives of Some Companies in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'At present, many businesses in Nepal have integrated CSR and philanthropic activities into their day-to-day operations. The consciousness of social responsibility has led them to share their profit with the society',
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			'title' => 'AUTO MARKET ON HIGH GEAR',
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			'short_content' => 'Badly affected by last year’s twin shocks that came in the form of the April and May earthquakes and India's border blockade, the Nepali automobile market is in recent months recovering in a fast way. The entire car business which was down almost 50 percent for the whole of 2015, is now growing at a pace',
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			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px">ARE WE CATCHING UP<br /> WITH THE WORLD</span><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">Nepali Business Houses in New Economy</span></p>',
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			'short_content' => 'One of the characteristics  of Nepali business houses is that they like to be omnipresent, in every sector, in all parts of the country and even may be abroad.',
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			'title' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Investment for Change</strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="font-size:16px">Envisioning Nepal&#39;s Economic Prospetrity</span></strong></p>',
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			'short_content' => '‘Change’ has become an overhyped buzzword in Nepal with the country going through various political and social changes over the past few decades. And these changes have so far failed to translate into economic prosperity and development as the prolonged political instability has been dragging the economy down. ',
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			'title' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
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			'title' => 'Lifetime Achievement in Business Leadership Award to Chiranjilal Agrawal -  Honouring the Legend ',
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			'short_content' => 'Chiranjilal Agrawal has played a big role in bringing Nepali industries in general and his family’s own MC (Madanlal-Chiranjilal) Group of Companies to today’s position. He worked continuously to diversify and modernise the Agrawal family business. His father late Dhiraj Agrawal started with a clothes shop in Dharan 97 years ago.',
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			'title' => 'Guest Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'It is no secret in today’s world that it is the business community and the entrepreneurs who move the countries ahead. The government must act not as a doer but as facilitator, a promoter and motivator. We need to convey this message not only within the country ',
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			'title' => 'Panelist Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal still lacks a sound business environment as the country is passing through difficult times.  Despite this, we have been able to move forward with our hopes latched onto the economy and the people, since we do not have other alternatives.',
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			'title' => 'Winner Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'I express my sincere gratitude towards New Business Age for the award. This has encouraged me to become more active. Our group has been active across multiple business sectors for the last 97 years. ',
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			'title' => 'Jury Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => '  The programme was very effective and inspirational.  All the sessions and especially the panel discussion gave a positive message that there are immense business opportunities in Nepal. ',
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			'title' => 'Advertising Industry Now .. Where is Nepali Advertising Heading',
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			'short_content' => ' The government’s decision to prioritise the production and transmission of domestic ads over foreign made ads could be a watershed moment for the domestic ad industry. How will it face the new challenge and will it be able to sort out its current shortcomings and make good use of the impending boost?',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 1',
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			'short_content' => 'Advertising has become something of a culture at present. The concept of advertising has been firmly established in the business sector in that businesses need to advertise their products and services in order to prosper. ',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 2',
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			'short_content' => 'Brand management is an integral part of any marketing campaign. If we can handle the brand management side effectively, advertisements will become more efficient. The agencies as well as the advertisers should have the knowledge about fundamentals of advertisement.',
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			'title' => 'The Real Sector’s Real Stock Market Deal',
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			'short_content' => 'The Nepali stock market has been on a bull run setting new records in recent months. Led by the banks and financial institutions alongside insurance companies, the NEPSE Index has been reaching new heights nearing the 2,000-points mark. The gravity defying high speed increase in the ‘Kathmandu bourse’ overtly showcases the strong confidence of general investors. ',
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			'title' => '<strong>LEGIS-LATER?</strong> <br />BILLS STUCK IN PARLIAMENT<br/> MAKING NEPAL AN ECO<span style="color:red;">NO</span>MY.',
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			'short_content' => 'With the country facing a severe economic recession due to last year’s devastating earthquake and Terai stir, Nepal is in need of all kinds of initiatives from the government including the policy support to end the current economic malaise.',
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			'title' => 'The Federal Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'With the promulgation of the new constitution, Nepal has adopted federalism as its administrative system, effectively doing away with its earlier five development regions and 75 districts. The country will be divided into seven states or provinces, the names of which have yet to be determined.',
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			'title' => 'Investment in Nepal .. Why, Where & How ?',
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			'short_content' => 'The Investment Board and the Ministry of Industry of Nepal have jointly brought out a new guide for investment in Nepal. This follows earlier guide that UNCTAD and ICC had jointly brought out in 2003. ',
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			'title' => ' Marketers pay heed to Women and Villages',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal abounds in huge new market segments. But, so far, not much has been done. It's high time we analyse these sectors and start appropriate measures to harness this vast untapped potential to make money.',
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			'title' => 'The Health of Nepali Pharma Industry',
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			'short_content' => 'The good news is the domestic pharmaceutical industry is in good health, despite the massive earthquake of April 25 last year and the ongoing unofficial blockade by India. It’s not that these events have not affected the industry at all but, according to the Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal (APPON), it has battled the odds well to cope with the emerging situation.',
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			'title' => 'Nepal China Trade : Prospects and Challenges',
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			'short_content' => 'The high Himalayan range in Nepal’s north has always served as a natural barrier prompting the country to trade more across its flat border with India, but the latter’s current blockade against Nepal has forced it to explore the trade prospects with China and tackle the challenges that come in the way. ',
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			'title' => 'Self-Reliant Economy : Myth Vs Reality',
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			'short_content' => 'Will Nepal now learn to not just talk the talk but actually walk the walk when it comes to making the country’s economy more self-reliant as it suffers under the yoke of economic dependency? The general consensus seems to be that it must.',
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			'title' => 'The Business of Festivals',
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			'short_content' => 'Besides a time for fun and enjoyment, festivals have also increasingly become occasions for brisk business. No wonder the Nepali economy is often described as a festival-driven economy. ',
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			'title' => 'The Eight Billion Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'It’s not going to be easy for banks to comply with the new NRB directive for minimum paid-up capital. However, the banks seem to have no alternative other than to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and meet the challenge. ',
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			'title' => 'Expert's View',
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			'short_content' => 'We took the step so that the capital base of banks widens and small shocks and risks do not affect them. We also want banks to be able to finance big projects on their own without having to seek co-financers; when the paid-up capital increases a bank’s single obligor limit (SOL) is also raised. ',
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			'title' => 'Economy in New Constitution',
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			'short_content' => 'As a democratic country, what sort of economic policies should Nepal adopt? Shouldn’t the new constitution clearly define such policies? Can the proposed constitutional provisions concerning the country’s economy really come in the way of its development?',
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			'title' => 'Some Expert Suggestions on Draft Constitution',
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			'short_content' => 'In a roundtable discussion on the draft constitution titled Economic Concerns in the Draft Constitution organised by Samriddhi, The Prosperity Foundation and Nepal Economic Forum (NEF) experts discussed the importance of having a sound economic stance along with social and development related issues in the constitution.',
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			'title' => 'Construction Industry  Now',
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			'short_content' => 'As Nepal gears up for the reconstruction phase post earthquake, experts anticipate a healthy growth for the country’s construction industry. ',
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			'title' => 'Experts' View July 2015',
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			'short_content' => '“We anticipate at least a 40 percent growth in cement demand”',
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			'title' => 'Rising From The Rubble',
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			'short_content' => 'The devastating 7.6 local magnitude (ML) Gorkha earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 and the subsequent aftershocks have caused more than 30,000 casualties including over 8,600 deaths. In addition to this tragic loss of human lives, the economic toll of the quake is immense. Tourism, agriculture, hydropower, manufacturing, real estate, SMEs, physical infrastructures etc have been hit hard by the quake.',
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			'short_content' => 'Forty-one percent (7,532) schools out of 18,289 were completely destroyed in 49 districts, but 4,650 schools are affected in 14 major-hit districts. 2,106 toilets and 1,363 drinking water fountains in schools were also destroyed.',
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			'short_content' => 'Fourteen of the country’s 75 districts were hit hardest by the quake. Districts like Dolakha have been completely devastated. However, even districts where the physical damage is quite low, such as Rupandehi, are facing the economic fallout. ',
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			'title' => 'Growing and Growing Cement',
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			'short_content' => 'Cement production in Nepal has been growing sharply over the past few years. The industry is among the country's most flourishing business sectors as the demand of cement is constantly rising. The vast untapped limestone reserves spread across the country have not only lured domestic companies but also the international investors.  ',
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			'title' => 'Experts' View May 2015',
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			'short_content' => 'The cement industry in Nepal is in the growing phase. Nepal is in the initial phase of infrastructural development. There are about 40-50 cement industries in existence in the country. The cement industry has immense scope.  ',
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			'title' => 'Driven by Demand',
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			'short_content' => 'The Nepali passenger vehicle market has registered a staggering growth. The market of cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) has been growing fast in recent years and new passenger vehicle brands have entered the country. Customers from various income groups are buying different types of four-wheelers which have ultimately started new segments of cars and SUVs in the domestic market.',
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			'short_content' => 'With the increasing demand of new television technologies, high-end TV market in Nepal is expanding at a rapid pace. Fuelled by the rise of tech-savvy young population, rising per capita income and falling prices of TV sets in the recent years, LED, Smart, 3D and Ultra-High Definition TVs have eventually become a must-have for Nepali consumers who are looking to enhance their viewing experience. ',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal is an increasingly growing market for most foreign airlines operating in the country. This growth is fuelled mainly by the increasing outflow of migrant workers, and, to some extent, the gain in tourist arrivals in a market where the presence of the national flag bearer, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) remains shrunken.',
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			'short_content' => 'Regional cooperation presupposes land connectivity in order to benefit from the economics of geography. During the British Rule in India, South Asia, for all practical purposes, was one economy with freedom of movement of not just goods but also peoples and means of transportation. ',
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			'short_content' => 'We do see this possibility. Laos is an example for us. It’s also a landlocked country like Nepal. They have built major highways connecting the country with Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ',
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			'short_content' => 'The theme of this conclave which is ‘Unlocking Nepal’s Growth Prospects’ is very timely. It is often presumed that for fast economic growth, a country needs a good natural resource base.',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) are two energy monopolies of the state which, everyone agrees, have grown sick to the core and need serious overhauling. Both were created during the Panchayat system and have undergone little reforms since then. The NEA enjoys complete monopoly in the field of hydroelectricity.',
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			'short_content' => 'After experiencing significant growth in 2021 and 2022, most e-commerce ventures are now facing a slowdown in demand and sluggish revenue growth. During the Covid-induced lockdowns, demand for online services reached record highs as more people began to trust e-commerce platforms. ',
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			'title' => 'Nepal in Information and Digital Technology',
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			'title' => 'Cross-boarder Power Trade: Prospects and Challenges',
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			'title' => 'Madhesh Prospects',
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			'short_content' => 'Madhesh Province has lots of potential, opportunities and resources to fulfil the development aspirations of the local people and to contribute in overall national prosperity. But there are also several challenges that have put the province in a situation of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Exporting Services To The World',
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			'short_content' => 'While Nepal's competitiveness in goods trade lags behind, there is an increasing urgency for both the government and the private sector to intensify their efforts in diversifying services exports. ',
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			'title' => 'Embracing the EV Culture',
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			'short_content' => 'The electric vehicle (EV) market in Nepal is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing consumer demand and a commitment to sustainable transportation. Despite frequently changing government policies and tax rates, the popularity of EVs is on the rise. The import figures reveal a surge in EV imports, with a 66.4% increase in the first nine months of the current fiscal year compared to the previous year. India is the largest supplier of EVs to Nepal, followed by China and South Korea. The government aims to transition to electric vehicles and reduce reliance on petroleum products. EVs offer advantages such as reduced emissions, cost savings, and utilization of Nepal's surplus electricity. However, challenges such as the lack of charging stations, high-interest rates, and inflation still exist. Innovative financing instruments and collaborative efforts between the government and private sector are crucial for promoting public electric mobility. To nurture the EV industry, policy and tax stability are essential for establishing a reliable and supportive environment for manufacturers and consumers.',
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			'title' => 'The New Economy in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the convergence of digital technologies and innovations, is reshaping various aspects of society, including the economy, culture, and individual lives. This revolution is marked by the blurring of lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, driven by technological advancements such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things.  While countries around the world are leveraging these new trends to their advantage, Nepal has been struggling to fully grasp and benefit from the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, there are efforts being made in certain sectors to adapt to this new techno-economic paradigm.  One key aspect of this revolution is the rise of tech companies that operate on digital platforms. Companies like Uber, Alibaba, and Oyo have achieved high valuations and transformed industries like transportation, retail, and hospitality without owning the physical assets traditionally associated with those sectors. These companies exemplify the potential for technology-driven disruption and innovation.  The rapid advancement of information technology has significantly changed the way people work, commute, communicate, and make payments. This shift has disrupted traditional business models, supply chains, and employment patterns. Economists believe that technology will drive the global economy, with the digital revolution unlocking tremendous opportunities.  Nepal, however, has been slow to embrace these changes. The country has not fully capitalized on industrialization in previous revolutions and risks falling behind once again. To catch up, latecomer economies like Nepal can adopt strategies of "leapfrogging," which involve skipping intermediate stages of industrialization and directly adopting advanced technologies. This could involve focusing on start-ups and service-based technologies rather than mass-based production.  Nepal has some strengths that can support its journey towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its young population, with a median age of 25 years, is quick to adopt new technologies as consumers and has the potential to innovate and create new opportunities. The gig economy, where young Nepali workers participate as freelancers or gig workers, has already shown potential in generating foreign currency earnings.  Efforts are being made in Nepal to make sense of the emerging trends and technologies. The Nepal Rastra Bank, for example, has initiated a feasibility study on the adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), positioning the country ahead in exploring the potential of digital currencies. The adoption of digital currency can revolutionize payments, increase financial inclusion, and democratize finance.  Moreover, sectors like agriculture in Nepal can benefit from the adoption of digital technologies. These technologies can increase efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in farming, thereby boosting the contribution of agriculture to the country's GDP. Digital platforms providing information on crop management, pest control, and weather information are already supporting farmers.  In conclusion, while Nepal may be somewhat isolated from the global trends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are efforts being made to adapt and benefit from digital innovations. By leveraging its young population, exploring strategies like leapfrogging, and embracing technologies in sectors like agriculture, Nepal can position itself to harness the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.',
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			'title' => 'New Business Age : New Economy',
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			'short_content' => 'The passage discusses the negative impact of the Maoist insurgency on Nepal's economy. It highlights the decline in tourist arrivals, the destruction of telecom infrastructure, and the adverse effects on various sectors such as education and health. The ongoing violence has disrupted social services in remote areas, leading to the desertion of health posts and the fleeing of teachers. The passage emphasizes the importance of peace and security for the country's socio-economic development.',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s economy is passing through one of its worst phases in history. Most of the economic indicators point to a looming crisis. While the government is scrambling to bridge the gap between its revenue and recurring expenditure, the private sector's confidence is waning.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Going GIG',
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			'short_content' => 'The gig economy, also known as the sharing economy, refers to the labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work rather than permanent jobs. ',
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			'title' => 'New Parliament’s Priority on Legal Reforms',
			'image' => '20230108053425_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali economy is currently experiencing one of its worst periods. Most economic indicators suggest that a crisis is looming. Economic growth, which averaged 4.9% between 2009 and 2019, contracted to 2.2% in 2020 for the first time in 30 years.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Extractive State, Costly Government Overreach',
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			'short_content' => 'Despite its failure and poor performance in sectors where it is involved, the government seeks to expand its reach and role. The government is perpetuating its exploitative and extractive character through heavy taxation, discretionary power and overregulation, stymieing business innovation and growth in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'FRANCHISING IN NEPAL : GROWING MARKET, ZERO REGULATION',
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			'short_content' => 'The lifestyle of Nepali people has undergone an immense transformation over the past decade or so. From having meals at home to eating out, Nepali society’s preference for food has changed a lot.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'POWER OF PRIVATE EQUITY',
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			'short_content' => 'While there might be many factors that kill any business idea, lack of financing opportunity to bankroll the business has been a major reason that compels many Nepali entrepreneurs to abandon their business ideas.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ''PE/VC Helps on Meeting Investment Gap'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'PE/VC is not a completely new term in Nepal. Even though the government has recently formalized it, the investors with a large fund has been investing under the PE/VC model. Back in 2012/2013, a few companies have started investing in an informal way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 24 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3627',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1239',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A BATTLE OF CHOICES : The Merger Dilemma in the Insurance Sector',
			'image' => '20220912121130_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Six years ago, Beema Samiti - the insurance regulatory authority of Nepal - decided to issue operating licences to 10 new insurance companies. The decision to add a whopping number of insurance companies at that time took many by surprise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 25 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3591',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' REMITTANCE : Risky Reliance',
			'image' => '20220808121700_Clipboard13AA.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What if Nepal either stops receiving remittances or there is a significant decline in the transfer of hard-earned money by Nepali workers abroad? This question—even hypothetical—should give our policymakers a chill. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 26 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3593',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'High Transfer Cost Not Only Reason Discouraging Use of Formal Channels',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal receives a significant share of remittances to GDP every year. The government data shows that the total remittance inflow translated into 22.53% of the total GDP in 2020/21. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 27 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3594',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Can Remittances Support Development in Nepal?',
			'image' => '20220808123341_12121.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Out-migration from Nepal—a landlocked and least- developed country—has surged in the last two decades. Now, a third of households has at least one member abroad and Nepal has one of the largest remittances to GDP ratios (24%  in  2018). ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 28 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3595',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Covid-19 and Impacts on Remittance Flows to Nepal',
			'image' => '20220808123702_Clipboard82.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After the surge of the global pandemic, a slew of lockdown measures were imposed to contain the virus. There were multiple predictions suggesting that the flow of remittance would dwindle in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 29 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3596',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Will Nepali Businesses Get Credit?',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'This time liquidity issues or so called C/D ratio (capping at 90%) of Banking System has really prolonged and Businesses, more particularly SME businesses are suffocating due to unavailability of credit. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 30 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3542',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ban on Import of Automobiles, Misguided Move',
			'image' => '20220704014859_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The automobile industry is interconnected with all gamut of the Nepali economy. The decision of the government regarding restriction on the import of vehicles will have a long-term effect on the government and people alike in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 31 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3547',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''The Automobile Sector is Going Through One of the Most Difficult Times in the History'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Prior to Covid-19 pandemic, the vehicle sales growth was very good. However, the pandemic dealt a blow to the auto mobile sector like it did to other sectors of the economy in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 32 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3548',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Restriction on a Part of Trade is Not a Solution'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The government has restricted the import of ICE vehicles for more than 2 months. It is sad to see that the government still looks at the four-wheelers as a luxury rather than a necessity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 33 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3549',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''Restriction Impacted the Entire Motor Sector'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'What should really be understood is that vehicle is now no more a luxury but a necessity and needs to be reclassified. Vehicle to what extent is a luxury?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 34 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3550',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Automobiles are Not Luxury Products'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The restriction imposed by the government on the import of automobiles has affected the business of the entire automobile sector. If you look at the scenario, the automobile industry is one of the major contributors to the country's revenue.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 35 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3551',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'The Effect of Double Restriction on Loans, Vehicles Piled up at Birgunj Customs'',
			'image' => '20220704021213_Clipboard26.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government's austerity measures and lack of liquidity to reduce the pressure on foreign exchange reserves have had an impact on vehicle imports.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 36 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3473',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1174',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENT : Eyeing Exports',
			'image' => '20220607103309_Clipboard18.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the manufacturing sector is on a sharp decline, the cement industry is experiencing a boom in recent years that is now eying the nearby markets for export as the domestic demands fail to keep up with the production capacity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 37 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3343',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : An Untapped Opportunity for Nepal',
			'image' => '20220406122324_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the last few years, medical tourism has become a buzz word, fashionably coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling to another country for medical care.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 38 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3344',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' "We Need More Trained Manpower to Promote Medical Tourism"',
			'image' => '20220406032627_234.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Dr. Prativa Pandey obtained her medical degree from New Delhi, India and did post graduation in Internal Medicine from Boston, USA. She worked for 10 years in the Boston area and returned to Nepal in 1993.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 39 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3345',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Policy Change a Must for Viability of Medical Tourism',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In a broader sense, Nepalis currently spend billions of rupees on treatment abroad due to a lack of adequate health infrastructure. However, there is a high potential for medical tourism in Nepal. A sizable number of Indians come to Nepal to Tilganga for eye treatment for cataracts.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 40 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3346',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : A Magical Win-Win',
			'image' => '20220406104516_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Medical tourism is simply a joint domain of two domains, as suggested by its name. Renamed "medical value travel," it is described as a purposeful cross-country visit in order to obtain treatment or any form of healthcare service. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 41 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3347',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Leading Asian Countries for Medical Tourism',
			'image' => '20220406105654_11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many people in the world have started travelling to different parts of the world spending huge amount of money for medical treatment. These people will be accompanied by their family and friends who, apart from taking care of their near and dear, also visit the touristic destinations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 42 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3348',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal has Tremendous Potentials',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal as a medical tourism destination has tremendous potential. I am saying this because of my recent experience when I was in an Indian restaurant in the United States',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 43 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3349',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Travel for Wellness',
			'image' => '20220406111138_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For ages, people used to travel considerable distances for medical and wellness treatment. During Roman times people sought out spas and thermal baths. Romans constructed resorts with thermal spas in entire Roman provinces. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 44 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3350',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Grey Tourism on the Rise',
			'image' => '20220406111912_1213.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Grey tourism is a specific niche market that caters towards older travellers. This group represents the largest, fastest growing, richest consumer market on the planet, accounting for half of earth’s consumer spending.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 45 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3279',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1087',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'PROBLEMS OF PLENTY : Power Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => '20220312063859_CS.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s power sector has undergone tremendous development in recent years. Most importantly, the power cuts (locally known as load-shedding) have now become history.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 46 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3280',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1087',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' “Foreign investors feel it is difficult to work in Nepal”',
			'image' => '20220312064632_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ashish Garg is the Vice President of the Independent Power Producers Association Nepal (IPPAN) and Convenor of the Energy Committee of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 47 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3232',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1043',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economic REFORMS 2.0',
			'image' => '20220213084154_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal is still to complete the first generation economic reforms that began in early 1990s or even before that, discussions have already begun on the need for second generation reforms. Is it the right time for second generation reforms? Where exactly are the reforms needed? Nubiz team has tried to explore.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 48 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3197',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1030',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'IPR Frustration',
			'image' => '20220108030745_Clipboard31.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'From Nike sneakers to Louis Vuitton handbags, Nepali consumers can easily purchase any item in the domestic market at a price that is nowhere close to their real or actual price. These knockoff products that closely resemble the global brands have long been flooding the market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 49 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3172',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1029',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Insurance industry’s response to Covid-19',
			'image' => '20211211085234_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the pandemic ravaged the tourism and leisure sectors such as hotels and travel businesses, industrial and financial sectors were also severely affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus and subsequent containment measures introduced by the government.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 50 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3147',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1028',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'UNCOVERING HIDDEN MONEY',
			'image' => '20211113075816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government is asking the private sector and investors to invest in certain priority sectors with a promise that it would not seek the source of income for two years. While the government wants to leverage the hidden cash for the country's development during the crisis',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 51 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3116',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SILVER LINING IN THE TOURISM SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090234_6.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In 2019, about 1.2 million tourists came to Nepal, and the income of tourism and hospitality businesses increased to good levels. Private sector investment also increased significantly in the sector targeting the upcoming Visit Nepal 2020. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 52 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3117',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE WAY FORWARD FOR INSURANCE SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090503_7.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance companies are risk managers. The relationship between their business and risk goes in one direction. As the risk increases, so does the insurance business, and when there is no risk, there is no need for insurance.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 53 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3118',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SIGNS OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH',
			'image' => '20211006090638_8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali private sector has faced various challenges in every era. In the past, we went through a heap of problems including the worsening of labor relations, up to 18 hours of power cuts, and the 2015 earthquake and border blockade',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 54 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3119',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Under-construction Projects Should be Expedited for Quick Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090803_5.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Advancing infrastructure development by considering economic activities and sources available in the country can help improve the economy. However, the priority of political leaders and lawmakers in their constituencies has cast a shadow over our real need for development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 55 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3120',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Improvement Needed in Most Areas for Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090948_4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Due to the adverse situation created by the pandemic and the working style of the government, the country's economic scenario is not looking encouraging. The ‘white paper’ issued by the coalition government and the latest macroeconomic report of the central bank have also painted a bleak picture.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 56 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3121',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Generating 750 MW of Electricity can Add 1 Percent to Nepal’s GDP',
			'image' => '20211006091120_3.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, agriculture has always been considered as the main basis of economic development which is wrong. We need to look towards countries like China and Ethiopia and see how they leaped from agriculture to other sectors such as manufacturing and services',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 57 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3122',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Banking Sector is the Mainstay of the Country's Economic Revival',
			'image' => '20211006091240_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Most of the sectors were affected by the lockdowns and prohibitory orders. However, the banking sector was not affected much.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 58 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3123',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Maintaining fiscal stability and generating employment is important',
			'image' => '20211006091354_1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The financial sector and capital market have performed exceptionally well even when other sectors were reeling with the sharp economic slowdown. Amidst the pandemic, digitalisation of financial services gained a big momentum. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 59 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3124',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'RECOVERING Nepal Inc.',
			'image' => '20211006091621_Clipboard48.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal's economy is slowly recovering from the unprecedented crisis brought on by the global pandemic. The signs are promising, but much more effort is required to face the challenges along the way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 60 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3092',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MCC Nepal Compact – An insight',
			'image' => '20210905082515_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Compact is based on the principles of accountability, transparency, and mutual prosperity and will open up a new chapter in the infrastructure development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 61 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3094',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MCC Compact : Costly Delay to Nepal’s Economic Development',
			'image' => '20210905083137_Clipboard47.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Power politics, controversies and unnecessary indecisiveness over the MCC Compact is not only making the fate of the USD 500-million grant for Nepal uncertain but also risks hurting the country’s ambition to transform the economy by exporting its hydroelectricity in the lack of adequate transmission infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 62 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3074',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'NRB Needs to Open Licenses for New Development Banks',
			'image' => '20210807050907_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When the new financial setup under the federal system was under preparation, a policy was formulated to encourage commercial banks to expand their presence in all the 753 local levels of the country. However, development banks were excluded as the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO) ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 63 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3075',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' LIBERALISING the Licensing Regime',
			'image' => '20210807051607_Clipboard49.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The time has come to cut the bureaucratic red tape and liberalise the licensing regime for a better business environment in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 64 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3051',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1024',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Riding THE BOOM',
			'image' => '20210630085625_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Coronavirus raging across the country not only sickened hundreds of thousands of people and claimed over 8,558 lives across the country but also brought economic activity almost to a standstill for months.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 65 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3030',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1023',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energising EXPORTS',
			'image' => '20210531021546_Clipboard10.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Improvement in value chains generally leads to production of sophisticated products. These products cost more but there are customers who do not hesitate to pay premium because of the quality. ',
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			'title' => 'THE BIG MELT',
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			'short_content' => 'In the first week of April, Community Eye Hospital in Hetauda suddenly started seeing a surge in the number of patients. The hospital, which used to handle around 100 to 150 patients a day, was receiving around 300 visitors on a daily basis, with almost all of them complaining about irritation in their eyes.',
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			'title' => 'WANTED : ELECTRICITY BUYERS',
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			'short_content' => 'Chameliya Hydroelectric Project. The name conjures up images of a long-delayed hydropower project with huge cost overruns. The 30-megawatt project built by state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) started construction in January 2008 and was originally scheduled to come online by May 2011. ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Construction Materials INDUSTRY NOW',
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			'short_content' => 'At a time when many industries in Nepal are still reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with market demand yet to rise to pre-pandemic levels, the construction materials industry is going through a different situation.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'THE CHINA CONUNDRUM',
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			'short_content' => 'Like many traders who import goods from or export goods to China via land, Bed Bahadur Shrestha has become accustomed to a slew of problems at the Nepal-China border crossings. These problems range from wage hike demands made by porters who load and unload goods to intermittent disruptions in movement of cargo trucks due to landslides on rough Himalayan terrain. ',
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			'title' => ' THE SME IMPERATIVE : What would it take to help SMEs get back on their feet',
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			'short_content' => 'Over the past nine months, exports of handicrafts have dipped dramatically as the international demand for merchandise goods has been decimated due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) reports a 70-80 percent fall in exports and an over 80 percent decline in domestic ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Facing the CHALLENGES',
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			'short_content' => 'The coronavirus outbreak, which engulfed the globe after starting from the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, is having a multitude of impacts to women entrepreneurship in Nepal which was showing promising signs prior to the Covid-19 crisis.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ' Nepal’s Agribusiness Transformation',
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			'short_content' => 'For Nepal, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been severe and it is unlike past international crises when the events had little to no impact on the Himalayan country. But even in these gloomy times when the threat of the deadly pathogen looms large over the health of the citizens and the country’s economy, a silver ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'BANKING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19',
			'image' => '20200917013051_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The four-month-long nationwide lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of cronavirus from late March to mid-July of this year and its subsequent impacts on the economic activities has put a dent on earnings of banks and financial institutions. Of the 27 commercial banks, only five banks have reported increase in profit in the last fiscal year ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'title' => 'Time for Banks to Manage Their Books Smartly',
			'image' => '20200917010658_Clipboard17.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali banking sector, in the last 20 years, had to grapple with major disturbances including the Maoist insurgency, 2015 Earthquake, and Indian economic blockade. But the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic has been the most challenging. ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On Banking in the Time of Covid-19',
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			'short_content' => 'The Monetary Policy for FY2020/21 has attempted to address many aspects of the economic slowdown brought by the four-month long lockdown. The arrangements encouraged business community members who were in a state of disarray due to the pandemic-induced recession. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'The Truth Behind Nepal-India Trade Relations',
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			'short_content' => 'Whenever Nepal-India bilateral relations come under strain, Nepal's economic dependence with the southern neighbour is often highlighted. Indian experts say the open border, transit access through Indian land and seaports, foreign direct investment from India, and India's dominating share in Nepal's foreign trade has benefited Nepal.',
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			'title' => 'HOTEL INDUSTRY : Survival for Existence and Beyond',
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			'short_content' => 'The series of worldwide unfortunate events over the last six months have dealt a massive blow to the Nepali hotel sector, which has an estimated investment of Rs 100 billion, with both international and domestic travel falling to zero, particularly after governments across the world rushed to impose lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus starting from mid-March.',
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			'title' => 'Dr Khatiwada's Third Budget :  Will it Revive the Covid-19 Stricken Economy?',
			'image' => '20200630094753_Clipboard09.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2020/21 was perhaps one of the most anticipated ones, in recent years. The fact that Finance Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada was presenting the budget against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic made the budget one to watch out for. ',
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Covid-19 Impact on Economy : Counting the Cost and the Road to Recovery  ',
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			'short_content' => 'In normal times, Nepal gets over 300,000 foreign visitors during the spring tourist season of March-May with the occupancy rate of hotels soaring to over 60 percent keeping the hospitality industry busy. This time, however, it is different with hotels practically empty and no one working.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'NEPALI STARTUP ECOSYSTEM : The Growth So Far & The Future',
			'image' => '20200512035159_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The last two months have been quite eventful for Nepali startups. First, Foodmandu, Nepal’s largest food delivery platform, has secured its second-round investment from Team Ventures, a private equity (PE) firm. Then, Health at Home, a healthcare services portal, also got funding from Business Oxygen (BO2),',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'A YEAR AFTER NEPAL INVESTMENT SUMMIT',
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			'short_content' => 'Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his address to the House of Representatives on February 14, to mark the current government’s second year, highlighted how successful his administration has been in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on A year After Nepal Investment Summit',
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			'short_content' => 'The present government came to power with the slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’. Happiness is a vague concept; however, material happiness at least requires overall improvement in the standards of living, economic, social and environmental security',
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' New Face of Women Entrepreneurship',
			'image' => '20201010030357_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Himalayan country is currently witnessing attempts made by women to break through the corporate and entrepreneurial glass ceiling to become master of their own destiny which was elusive for them a couple of decades ago. It is promising in a sense that Nepali women, who were largely confined to household works in the past, have taken charge of their own future. I',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Message from President Xi’s Nepal Visit',
			'image' => '20201013014927_sdsd.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Jiang Zemin visited Nepal in 1996, China was barely able make it to the list of top ten economies and was trying to establish itself as the low-cost factory of the world. In 2019, when Xi Jinping came to the Himalayan nation for the first presidential visit by a Chinese President in 23 years,',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
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			'title' => 'CHINA FIXATION : WILL POLITICAL BONHOMIE TRANSLATE INTO ECONOMIC GAIN FOR NEPAL?',
			'image' => '20201013024850_China Grapix.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Kathmandu in the second week of October, the first official visit by a Chinese President in 23 years, many eyes were on him wondering if he would announce the construction of the much-hyped Kerung-Kathmandu Trans-Himalayan Railway and how large a financial assistance package China would offer to Nepal.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal Clearing House Limited (NCHL), in the month of Poush (December/January), reported that monthly transactions on its connectIPS, an electronic payment system, reached Rs 12.05 billion. The size of the transaction highlights two things. Digital payment is growing in acceptance among ordinary Nepalis and people are getting connected to the broader fintech (financial technology) disruptions taking place the world over. ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Experts Views On DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
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			'short_content' => 'Technology is enabling an ecosystem where customers are acquired and served differently than traditional ways. While designing a digital strategy, it is important to understand how customers are acquired and how they are served',
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			'title' => 'CEMENT INDUSTRY WOES : How to Stop it Going from Boom to Bust',
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			'short_content' => 'At a time when the country’s industrial productivity has mostly remained subdued, it is a matter of great pride to note that Nepal has become self-reliant in cement production. Over the last few years, this essential construction material has been witnessing a boom in business which, historically, only a few industries in Nepal had gone through.',
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			'title' => 'Big Merger : NRB’s Merger Cane and Nepali Banking',
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			'short_content' => 'In what looked like students being summoned into the headmaster’s office for a caning, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on June 27 invited chairmen and CEOs of banks and financial institutions to Hotel Yak and Yeti, a five-star property in downtown Kathmandu,',
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			'title' => 'Has the Business Climate Changed?',
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			'short_content' => 'Ever since KP Sharma Oli assumed the prime ministerial post in February 2018, for the second time, he and several ministers of his cabinet have repeatedly expressed in foreign as well as domestic forums that ‘Nepal is open for business with lucrative investment opportunities’, and that ‘foreign as well as domestic investors should invest in the country without any feeling of hesitation.',
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			'title' => 'Hotels in Nepal : THE NEW WAVE',
			'image' => '20190511105700_Clipboard37.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After seven months, it will be Visit Nepal 2020. The goal of this second national tourism promotion campaign (The first was VNY 1998) is to welcome two million foreign visitors. The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign aims to achieve twice as many travellers than the goal set for Tourism Year 2011 and four times bigger than that of Visit Nepal Year 1998. ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'When Technology Meets Hospitality',
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			'short_content' => 'In this digital era, when contact with technology is inevitable, any form of business can create disruption in the industry with the wise and clever use of technology. The hospitality industry, till a few years ago, was human intensive with every big and small player striving to provide quality services and amenities through its vast resource pool.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Hotel Boom in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Hoteliers are very much prepared; today we have enough hotels to accommodate 2.5 million guests in term of rooms, beds, food and entertainment. Eventually, by combining all categories of hotels, i.e. stars hotels, resorts, lodges, guest houses and even the homestay facilities, we have the strength in numbers to make Visit Nepal 2020 a grand success.',
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			'title' => 'ICTC GROUP’S NEW GEN : TAKING OVER THE REINS',
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			'short_content' => 'Any transition from the old generation to the new comes with both opportunities and challenges. In a family-run business, this becomes more evident due to the complexities in managing various aspects such as maintaining the values of the family, incorporating ideas of the new generation, and most importantly the succession planning, factors that are considered essential to the success of the businesses and for charting their direction for the future.',
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			'title' => 'Mutual Funds in Nepal : Way Ahead',
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			'short_content' => 'The development or growth or expansion of the capital market in Nepal has been talked about a lot. However, these discussions have made little real impact.  Thus, the Nepali capital market is operating in an ecosystem where many components are entirely absent.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'The SSF Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'On November 27, 2018, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli launched the ambitious, contribution-based Social Security Fund (SSF) claiming it as the ‘beginning of a new era’ amid lavish fanfare. “It is a historical achievement for us. The launch of the scheme will create a better work environment in the country,” said the Prime Minister unveiling the welfare scheme',
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			'title' => 'Too Big to Fail : Saving NAC from the Claws of Greed',
			'image' => '20190122020426_Clipboard12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In August 2016, when the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) decided to start process of purchasing two Airbus wide-body aircraft for long-haul flights, a bright light of hope for a revival of the struggling national flag carrier was seen at the horizon.',
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			'title' => 'How Export of Services can Balance Nepal’s Trade',
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			'short_content' => 'Global trade, today, is undergoing a transformation with the balance fast shifting towards trade in services from trade in goods. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the governing body for international trade, trade in services now accounts for two-thirds of the global trade in value added terms.',
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			'title' => 'Banking Strategies and Disruptions : Nepali Banking Industry’s New Direction',
			'image' => '20181116022537_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => '81  years after Nepal Bank Limited was established as the first commercial bank in the country, the Nepali banking sector has seemingly come to a crossroads. From issues related to liquidity management, financial inclusion, productive sector lending, CSR obligations and sustainable business practices',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Distorting the Private Sector',
			'image' => '20181007011305_Clipboard38.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The country’s private sector is increasingly turning to easier but more financially rewarding ventures like trading and partnering with the public sector on procurements and extraction of resources.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Problems in New Tax Arrangements and Taxation Reform',
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			'short_content' => 'The first federal government budget indicates that the government has taken a backward momentum in terms of taxation. There has been 5 percent customs buty increment on the impart of agricultural commodities. Such used to be levied also in the part but was abandoned long time back. Likewise, tariffs on the import of many commodities have been increased. To stop illegal imports of goods and commodities, the government should have reduced the tariffs. ',
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			'title' => 'Indirect Taxes in Nepal : Challenges and Trends',
			'image' => '20180910022816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'According to Harvard economist Daron Acemoglu, tax revenue as percentage of GDP is generally higher among countries with higher per capita income. Nepal is an anomaly in the global trend. For a country with modest economy, Nepal displays a strong state capacity for taxation.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Taxation Transition: Finding the Ideal Tax Template',
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			'short_content' => 'During his recent trip to the United States to participate in the annual meeting of The World Bank, Minister for Finance Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada presented Nepal as the most competitive country in South Asia in terms of corporate income tax.',
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			'title' => 'BBIN : Will Sub-regionalism Work?',
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			'short_content' => 'Across the world, markets have enjoyed tremendous success by embracing free trade regimes within regional markets with connectivity as the nucleus of such practices of economic integration. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the European Union (EU) bloc is a vivid example. Within regionalism, countries have even experimented with sub-regionalism to realise the economic potential of underdeveloped pockets.',
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			'title' => 'Connectivity : Trailblazer of Regional Integration',
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			'short_content' => 'Trade and economic integration at the bilateral and regional levels is gaining ground in the wake of the faltering global trading system. The looming dissension against the rules of international trade by the US administration not only debilitated the functioning of the World Trade Organization (WTO) but also reckoned to the re-emergence of old mercantilist theory,',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Regional Integration',
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			'short_content' => 'The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a Jaipur (India) based NGO working in the areas of trade, economy and environment, organised a regional policy dialogue on “Connectivity Imperatives in the Bay of Bengal Region” in New Delhi on May 2 and 3.',
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			'title' => 'Breaking Away from the Zero-sum Paradigm​',
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			'short_content' => 'The foreign policy of every country is guided by national interests and priorities. In the context of the growing Nepal-China relationship, it is essential for Nepal to maintain a sound relationship with both India and China in order to ensure success of its foreign policy.',
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			'title' => 'Dancing with the Dragon : The Road Ahead to Nepal-China Economic Relations',
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			'short_content' => 'A previously little-known locality of Jhapa spreading across areas of Kamal Rural Municipality and Gauradaha and Damak municipalities has caught national attention due to its high economic significance. Located about 9 kilometres from the Damak section of the East-West Highway,',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2163',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Economics of Sports : More than Fan Fever',
			'image' => '20180615095940_Clipboard54.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Behind this worldwide football euphoria and the curiosity about who will lift the trophy, are the economic benefits the host country, the governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), event sponsors, brands, broadcasters, advertisers, marketers and numerous other businesses, big and small, will reap from the quadrennial sporting event. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Economics of Sports',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Sports is also an indicator of a country’s societal and economic development. The performance of players in international competitions reflects the state of development. Nepal has not reached the stage where we can execute plans related to sports in well managed ways.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'A Win-Win Strategy for Liquidity Management',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal needs massive investment for its economic growth. We should be very careful while designing economic policies that must support the long-term economic growth objectives of the government. The current level of investment, though meeting the annual target set by the government,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Credit Crunch : Beyond a Wake Up Call For Banking Sector',
			'image' => '20180514032903_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Times are hard for Nepali banks and financial institutions (BFIs). They have been struggling with the ongoing shortage of loanable funds which started in December 2017.  From construction of hydropower projects, industrial expansion, real estate and housing transactions to sales of vehicles, many commercial, infrastructure development and manufacturing activities have been hit by the problem.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management  1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The shortage of loanable funds has been caused by several factors. The outflow of Nepal is for overseas work opportunities has declined in recent time which can be attributed to the recent political developments that has been signaling political stability in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2134',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, there is a tendency of revolving around the same issues instead of searching for the options to come out of the troubles. We have been continuously hearing about issues like sluggishness in capital expenditure, swelling trade deficit and distributive budget since 2048 BS.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2101',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '984',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal’s Top 30 Business Houses : Leading the Way',
			'image' => '20180403103039_Clipboard69.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'This article discusses the top 30 Nepali business houses, highlighting their history, growth, diversification, management practices, political connections, controversies, and future expansion plans. These business houses have played a significant role in Nepal's economy, venturing into various sectors such as banking, insurance, tourism, hospitality, health, education, IT, real estate, housing, and hydropower. The article emphasizes the benefits of diversified business operations for these groups, allowing them to withstand market shocks and navigate political and economic uncertainties. It also mentions the generational transition within these family businesses and their increasing engagement with politics. Despite controversies and allegations, these business houses continue to thrive and have optimistic plans for further investments and market development in Nepal.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2077',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Securing Intellectual Property Rights',
			'image' => '20180312112200_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property Right (IPR) plays a vital role for economies to thrive in today’s competitive world.  Countries have been adopting rigorous legal and technical measures to secure the intellectual properties (IPs) which they consider very important to attract investments and also to secure their national interests.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2078',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
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			'title' => 'Trademark Administration in Nepal',
			'image' => '20180313095356_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A  trademark often referred to as a ‘creation of the mind’ is an intellectual property. UK law defines a trademark as “a sign capable of being represented graphically which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of another undertaking” ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2079',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Intellectual Property Rights ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property (IP) is an essential tool for the economic development of any country. Four factors that drive the engine of IP smoothly are creation, promotion, protection and use of IP. In Nepal, there is no dearth of creative activities coming out from academic and research organisations as well as technical professionals who produce literary, artistic, musical and scientific creations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2050',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Changing HR Dynamics in Nepal  ',
			'image' => '20180220104009_Clipboard50.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'There is a growing sense of realization among Nepali employers that focusing only on activities including production, sales and marketing, for example, are largely insufficient to meet the organisational objectives and to mitigate the existing and future challenges.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2051',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The traditional mindset still prevails in many organisations when it comes to human resource management. It sees people as liabilities whereas the modern philosophy of HRM takes people as the most important asset in the organization.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2052',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The frustration of people is generally directed towards the lack of career growth opportunities. People keep on working but are unaware about the next step for growth. This is so partly because many organisations have failed to design clear career paths for their employees and communicate with them. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2020',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Analyzing Manufacturing Prospects',
			'image' => '20180121115146_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Economies have thrived expanding their manufacturing base by reforming industrial policies, diversifying outputs, scaling-up production processes and systems, attracting global investments and upgrading connectivity and power-supplies. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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	(int) 123 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2021',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Manufacturing Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Cost of doing business in Nepal has gone up for everybody whether exporters, importers or domestic-based producers. For the export market, fulfilling business commitments in time and remaining competitive is difficult. It may diminish our preferential value. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Health  for All : Accelerating Universal Healthcare Coverage in Nepal',
			'image' => '20171223103203_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Access to healthcare for the average Nepali has significantly improved in the last three decades. The increasing availability of better healthcare services in the country has led to a rise in almost all health related indicators.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1998',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Healthcare Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The main challenge in the health sector is that people have to bear all the expenses of the health care in Nepal. Opening such a big institution definitely brings more patients and causes more stress. The patients are more stressed when they have to pay more than their potential.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 126 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1966',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '979',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Startup Ecosystem : Is it the Next Growth Engine for Nepal?',
			'image' => '20171113111636_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? How can a small venture starting from scratch take centre-stage in the world of business? How can young people realise their ideas in business to bring innovative solutions and positive changes to society? ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 127 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1927',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Buddha in Business Management',
			'image' => '20171008101524_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been over 2,500 years since Gautam Buddha enlightened the world with his teachings encouraging people to follow the path of non-violence, truthfulness and righteousness. More than two and a half millennia later, the world continues to remember his teachings in the form of Buddhism,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 128 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1936',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“We keep coexistence in mind”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'One requires honesty and credibility to run a successful business. We at CE try to strive for this as much as possible; we avoid taking any bad action against anyone. There is no unhealthy competition between us and our competitors nor do we have any negativity towards them.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 129 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1937',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Planning, organisational management and motivation are main components of Buddhist management”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The universal definition of management is to manage tactfully. In Buddhism too, the meaning is not that different. It refers to management of life. Buddha’s main concern was to understand how to manage the life that we live, in order to be able to gain the maximum benefit from our lives. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 130 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1919',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '25 Years of Unilever Nepal : Charting New Heights in FMCG',
			'image' => '20170914013755_coverstory.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been a glorious 25 years of Unilever in Nepal. Unilever Nepal Limited (UNL) has seen several ups and downs in this journey, ultimately establishing itself as perhaps the largest FMCG manufacturer in the country. Profitability along with positive impact on society and the environment has been at the core of the business model of UNL. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 131 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1920',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Our vision is to grow the business whilst decoupling environmental footprint from the company’s growth and to increase positive social impact”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali FMCG sector is a mixture of importers and unorganised players who mostly infringe the IPRs and also don’t comply with local rules in letter or spirit. To accelerate the FMCG sector’s growth, Nepal requires big investments in local manufacturing, marketing, capability of people and distribution infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 132 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1884',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Robust Business of FMCGs ',
			'image' => '20170820113716_c.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'FMCG sector has championed the Nepali manufacturing establishment. Now with the right set of policies and an environment conducive to business, Nepali FMCG brands aim  high to take on the international market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 133 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1885',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali FMCG Sector',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'With the growing income of the lower and middle class people, the market is growing. Many FMCG products are somewhat essential in nature, particularly the products with market brands. All FNCG companies in the country are doing very well. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1855',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => '20170712094552_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Known to many as ‘a country of villages’ just a few decades ago, Nepal is witnessing a rapid shift in rural and urban demographics. The change in demographics is attributed to the internal migration that has speeded up over the last 3-4 decades. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 135 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1856',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Planned urbanisation has become a priority development agenda for the government and political parties lately. This is because of the rapid urbanisation due to the sharp increase in the urban population.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 136 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1807',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economics of Insurance',
			'image' => '20170614095308_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance is familiar to the general people of insurance of car, buildings and contents and life insurance.  Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 137 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1818',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Insurance Sector&nbsp;</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Towards Golden Days</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170615100049_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The interest of general public towards insurance over the last few years has grown as more Nepalis are looking to get insured.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 138 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1785',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT<br /> Some Policy Issues</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170512120504_co.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Things have been progressing quite encouragingly following the March 2-3 mega-event that was the Nepal Investment Summit 2017 organised by the Ministry of Industry. Investors, mostly foreign, expressed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest a total of USD 13.52 billion, in various  sectors in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 139 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1795',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Foreign Direct  Investment',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal has entered into a new era of policy reform. We call it the second generation reform.  We have seen the changes over the past five to six months in this regard. The government has brought different policies and Acts to improve the investment climate in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 140 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1762',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>INVESTMENT IN NEPAL<br /> Materialising the Opportunities</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170424091033_c0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Of late, both the public and private sectors seem to have realised the importance of infrastructure growth and investment. While the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), a major umbrella organisation of the Nepali private sector organised a mega event titled Nepal Infrastructure Summit (NIS) 2017 on February 19, ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 141 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1763',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Infrastructure Summit : Evidence Based Advocacy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Infrastructure has various effects on an economy. Primarily, infrastructure stimulates economic development by encouraging production activities. It produces various crowding in effects, including in production activities and quality of life for households, which thus benefits the entire society. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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			'short_content' => 'The undertaking was aimed at informing potential foreign investors about the recent reforms at the policy level and conveying the message that Nepal is a suitable destination for doing business. On this, the participants signed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest in potential sectors. ',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Investment in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'Lack of basic infrastructures has forced us to witness economic growth averaging 4 percent over the last one decade. The infrastructure gap has directly hurt development activities. As we are aspiring to reach the level of middle-income nations by 2030,',
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			'title' => 'THE IRON IS HOT!',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal which used to be mostly dependent on the import of iron and steel construction materials over a decade ago now seems to be on the way to become self-sufficient in such products. Steel bars, rods and galvanized corrugated sheets for roofing are the major items produced in the country.',
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			'short_content' => 'The industrialisation of Nepal gained momentum after the political changes in 1990. The liberal and open market policies helped the industries to grow. Nevertheless, the Maoist insurgency put a major roadblock in the pace of the country’s industrialisation.',
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			'short_content' => 'The years since 2015 are considered to be historic for the Nepali tourism sector.  The years marked the golden jubilee celebrations of some important hotels and tourism related organisations that have been pivotal for the institutional development of the tourism sector in Nepal.',
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			'short_content' => 'Airlines are essential to the tourism industry of any country. Maintaining quality of services in the airlines is important to ensure a healthy inflow of tourists. The quality of an airliner doesn't just depend on serving good food and providing a glass of champagne.',
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			'title' => 'CEMENTING THE GROWTH',
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			'short_content' => 'The word ‘self-sufficiency’ has become a well worn cliché when it comes to industrial development in Nepal. Given the steep decline in industrial activities over the past one and half decades due to various obstructing elements, it has become very difficult for many manufacturing sector companies',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Cement Industry in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepali cement manufacturers started their business at a very hard time during the Maoist insurgency around 15-16 years ago. They are still facing a lot of problems. Nevertheless, gradually with the increasing market the number ',
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			'title' => 'CSR: HOW DOING GOOD FOR SOCIETY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS',
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			'short_content' => 'Many companies in Nepal are engaged in various activities of social importance. From education and health, livelihood of marginalized communities, infrastructure development in rural areas, increasing inclusiveness, preservation of heritage or ecological conservation,  MNCs, BFIs, business houses 
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			'title' => 'CSR Initiatives of Some Companies in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'At present, many businesses in Nepal have integrated CSR and philanthropic activities into their day-to-day operations. The consciousness of social responsibility has led them to share their profit with the society',
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			'title' => 'AUTO MARKET ON HIGH GEAR',
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			'short_content' => 'Badly affected by last year’s twin shocks that came in the form of the April and May earthquakes and India's border blockade, the Nepali automobile market is in recent months recovering in a fast way. The entire car business which was down almost 50 percent for the whole of 2015, is now growing at a pace',
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			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px">ARE WE CATCHING UP<br /> WITH THE WORLD</span><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">Nepali Business Houses in New Economy</span></p>',
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			'short_content' => 'One of the characteristics  of Nepali business houses is that they like to be omnipresent, in every sector, in all parts of the country and even may be abroad.',
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			'title' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Investment for Change</strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="font-size:16px">Envisioning Nepal&#39;s Economic Prospetrity</span></strong></p>',
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			'short_content' => '‘Change’ has become an overhyped buzzword in Nepal with the country going through various political and social changes over the past few decades. And these changes have so far failed to translate into economic prosperity and development as the prolonged political instability has been dragging the economy down. ',
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			'title' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
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			'title' => 'Lifetime Achievement in Business Leadership Award to Chiranjilal Agrawal -  Honouring the Legend ',
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			'short_content' => 'Chiranjilal Agrawal has played a big role in bringing Nepali industries in general and his family’s own MC (Madanlal-Chiranjilal) Group of Companies to today’s position. He worked continuously to diversify and modernise the Agrawal family business. His father late Dhiraj Agrawal started with a clothes shop in Dharan 97 years ago.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Guest Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'It is no secret in today’s world that it is the business community and the entrepreneurs who move the countries ahead. The government must act not as a doer but as facilitator, a promoter and motivator. We need to convey this message not only within the country ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Panelist Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal still lacks a sound business environment as the country is passing through difficult times.  Despite this, we have been able to move forward with our hopes latched onto the economy and the people, since we do not have other alternatives.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Winner Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => 'I express my sincere gratitude towards New Business Age for the award. This has encouraged me to become more active. Our group has been active across multiple business sectors for the last 97 years. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Jury Speak - Investment for Change',
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			'short_content' => '  The programme was very effective and inspirational.  All the sessions and especially the panel discussion gave a positive message that there are immense business opportunities in Nepal. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Advertising Industry Now .. Where is Nepali Advertising Heading',
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			'short_content' => ' The government’s decision to prioritise the production and transmission of domestic ads over foreign made ads could be a watershed moment for the domestic ad industry. How will it face the new challenge and will it be able to sort out its current shortcomings and make good use of the impending boost?',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 1',
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			'short_content' => 'Advertising has become something of a culture at present. The concept of advertising has been firmly established in the business sector in that businesses need to advertise their products and services in order to prosper. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 2',
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			'short_content' => 'Brand management is an integral part of any marketing campaign. If we can handle the brand management side effectively, advertisements will become more efficient. The agencies as well as the advertisers should have the knowledge about fundamentals of advertisement.',
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			'title' => 'The Real Sector’s Real Stock Market Deal',
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			'short_content' => 'The Nepali stock market has been on a bull run setting new records in recent months. Led by the banks and financial institutions alongside insurance companies, the NEPSE Index has been reaching new heights nearing the 2,000-points mark. The gravity defying high speed increase in the ‘Kathmandu bourse’ overtly showcases the strong confidence of general investors. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => '<strong>LEGIS-LATER?</strong> <br />BILLS STUCK IN PARLIAMENT<br/> MAKING NEPAL AN ECO<span style="color:red;">NO</span>MY.',
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			'short_content' => 'With the country facing a severe economic recession due to last year’s devastating earthquake and Terai stir, Nepal is in need of all kinds of initiatives from the government including the policy support to end the current economic malaise.',
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			'title' => 'The Federal Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'With the promulgation of the new constitution, Nepal has adopted federalism as its administrative system, effectively doing away with its earlier five development regions and 75 districts. The country will be divided into seven states or provinces, the names of which have yet to be determined.',
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			'title' => 'Investment in Nepal .. Why, Where & How ?',
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			'short_content' => 'The Investment Board and the Ministry of Industry of Nepal have jointly brought out a new guide for investment in Nepal. This follows earlier guide that UNCTAD and ICC had jointly brought out in 2003. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => ' Marketers pay heed to Women and Villages',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal abounds in huge new market segments. But, so far, not much has been done. It's high time we analyse these sectors and start appropriate measures to harness this vast untapped potential to make money.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'The Health of Nepali Pharma Industry',
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			'short_content' => 'The good news is the domestic pharmaceutical industry is in good health, despite the massive earthquake of April 25 last year and the ongoing unofficial blockade by India. It’s not that these events have not affected the industry at all but, according to the Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal (APPON), it has battled the odds well to cope with the emerging situation.',
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			'title' => 'Nepal China Trade : Prospects and Challenges',
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			'short_content' => 'The high Himalayan range in Nepal’s north has always served as a natural barrier prompting the country to trade more across its flat border with India, but the latter’s current blockade against Nepal has forced it to explore the trade prospects with China and tackle the challenges that come in the way. ',
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			'title' => 'Self-Reliant Economy : Myth Vs Reality',
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			'short_content' => 'Will Nepal now learn to not just talk the talk but actually walk the walk when it comes to making the country’s economy more self-reliant as it suffers under the yoke of economic dependency? The general consensus seems to be that it must.',
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			'title' => 'The Business of Festivals',
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			'short_content' => 'Besides a time for fun and enjoyment, festivals have also increasingly become occasions for brisk business. No wonder the Nepali economy is often described as a festival-driven economy. ',
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			'title' => 'The Eight Billion Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'It’s not going to be easy for banks to comply with the new NRB directive for minimum paid-up capital. However, the banks seem to have no alternative other than to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and meet the challenge. ',
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			'title' => 'Expert's View',
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			'short_content' => 'We took the step so that the capital base of banks widens and small shocks and risks do not affect them. We also want banks to be able to finance big projects on their own without having to seek co-financers; when the paid-up capital increases a bank’s single obligor limit (SOL) is also raised. ',
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			'title' => 'Economy in New Constitution',
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			'short_content' => 'As a democratic country, what sort of economic policies should Nepal adopt? Shouldn’t the new constitution clearly define such policies? Can the proposed constitutional provisions concerning the country’s economy really come in the way of its development?',
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			'title' => 'Some Expert Suggestions on Draft Constitution',
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			'short_content' => 'In a roundtable discussion on the draft constitution titled Economic Concerns in the Draft Constitution organised by Samriddhi, The Prosperity Foundation and Nepal Economic Forum (NEF) experts discussed the importance of having a sound economic stance along with social and development related issues in the constitution.',
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			'title' => 'Construction Industry  Now',
			'image' => '20150809051606_small_1436940157.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'As Nepal gears up for the reconstruction phase post earthquake, experts anticipate a healthy growth for the country’s construction industry. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Experts' View July 2015',
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			'short_content' => '“We anticipate at least a 40 percent growth in cement demand”',
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			'title' => 'Rising From The Rubble',
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			'short_content' => 'The devastating 7.6 local magnitude (ML) Gorkha earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 and the subsequent aftershocks have caused more than 30,000 casualties including over 8,600 deaths. In addition to this tragic loss of human lives, the economic toll of the quake is immense. Tourism, agriculture, hydropower, manufacturing, real estate, SMEs, physical infrastructures etc have been hit hard by the quake.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Assessing the Impact of the Great Earthquake',
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			'short_content' => 'Forty-one percent (7,532) schools out of 18,289 were completely destroyed in 49 districts, but 4,650 schools are affected in 14 major-hit districts. 2,106 toilets and 1,363 drinking water fountains in schools were also destroyed.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'The Cost of the Earthquake in the Districts',
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			'short_content' => 'Fourteen of the country’s 75 districts were hit hardest by the quake. Districts like Dolakha have been completely devastated. However, even districts where the physical damage is quite low, such as Rupandehi, are facing the economic fallout. ',
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Growing and Growing Cement',
			'image' => '20150820120744_cn.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Cement production in Nepal has been growing sharply over the past few years. The industry is among the country's most flourishing business sectors as the demand of cement is constantly rising. The vast untapped limestone reserves spread across the country have not only lured domestic companies but also the international investors.  ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 183 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '889',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View May 2015',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The cement industry in Nepal is in the growing phase. Nepal is in the initial phase of infrastructural development. There are about 40-50 cement industries in existence in the country. The cement industry has immense scope.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 184 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1176',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '863',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Driven by Demand',
			'image' => '20150820015504_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali passenger vehicle market has registered a staggering growth. The market of cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) has been growing fast in recent years and new passenger vehicle brands have entered the country. Customers from various income groups are buying different types of four-wheelers which have ultimately started new segments of cars and SUVs in the domestic market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 185 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1146',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '839',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE HIGH-END VIEW',
			'image' => '20150821113354_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'With the increasing demand of new television technologies, high-end TV market in Nepal is expanding at a rapid pace. Fuelled by the rise of tech-savvy young population, rising per capita income and falling prices of TV sets in the recent years, LED, Smart, 3D and Ultra-High Definition TVs have eventually become a must-have for Nepali consumers who are looking to enhance their viewing experience. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 186 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'International Airlines Flying High',
			'image' => '20150802113623_1424763399.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal is an increasingly growing market for most foreign airlines operating in the country. This growth is fuelled mainly by the increasing outflow of migrant workers, and, to some extent, the gain in tourist arrivals in a market where the presence of the national flag bearer, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) remains shrunken.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1049',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '783',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ushering Nepal In The Smarter Age',
			'image' => '20150824025942_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'With the growing tech-savvy population, Nepal's gadget market now has the presence of almost all global and regional smartphone brands. Despite being a small market, Nepal is getting more lucrative to them as the demand for smartphones is on a sharp rise. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 188 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1050',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '783',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View January 2015',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Samsung is the number one mobile phone brand in the world, with highest market share in total mobile phone sales and highest market share in total smartphone sales. One of the reasons behind its high popularity is that the company is investing millions of dollars every year for research 
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			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 189 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1035',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '756',
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			'title' => 'The Himalayan Power Revolution In The Making',
			'image' => '20150831124121_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Almost all stakeholders of Nepal’s hydropower sector are highly encouraged and enthused by the signing of the Power Trade Agreement (PTA) between Nepal and India and the Power Development Agreement (PDA) between Nepal government and India’s GMR and Sutlej for the development of the 900MW Upper Karnali Hydroelectricity Project and 900MW Arun III project respectively. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 190 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Story of Nepali Startups',
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			'short_content' => 'The startup scene in Nepal has changed significantly over the last five–seven years, with new and young entrepreneurs coming up with innovative ideas every year. Today, though there is no official data, the number of successful startups in Nepal is estimated to be above 50. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 191 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '730',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View November 2014',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'echnology sector is all about innovation. Coming up with new ideas only is not just enough for tech entrepreneurs. To sustain growth they must constantly innovate themselves. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 192 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Land Linked Nepal',
			'image' => '20151005123559_fjfljfdldsjf.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal is ideally located between India and China to work as a golden land-bridge between them and facilitate their bilateral trade. But for this to happen, all three countries must focus on Nepal's infrastructure development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 193 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '929',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'China’s Proposals for Trans-Himalayan Connectivity : Consider Four Economic Corridors',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Following its “New Silk Roads” policies to improve connectivity with neighbouring countries in Asia, China proposed earlier this year to establish a “Trans-Himalaya Economic Region” to be led by India and itself.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 194 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '930',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Benefits of Greater Land Connectivity in South Asia and with China',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Regional cooperation presupposes land connectivity in order to benefit from the economics of geography. During the British Rule in India, South Asia, for all practical purposes, was one economy with freedom of movement of not just goods but also peoples and means of transportation. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 195 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '931',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '‘‘Railway and roadway network connecting China and India can change Nepal's fortune’’',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'To transform Nepal from a landlocked country to a land-linked nation, we have only two potential mediums available so far. One is the railway link and the other is the road transport.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 196 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '932',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '‘‘We need an alternative road  connection to China’’',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'We do see this possibility. Laos is an example for us. It’s also a landlocked country like Nepal. They have built major highways connecting the country with Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 197 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '955',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Growth Prospect',
			'image' => '20150909014359_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Nepal does have natural resources. They are of course our growth potentials but not necessarily the key element needed for our future economic growth. The key element is human resource; the brainpower, creativity of the people, entrepreneurship and innovation. If we can unlock our human potential,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 198 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '956',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Speakers' Voices',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The theme of this conclave which is ‘Unlocking Nepal’s Growth Prospects’ is very timely. It is often presumed that for fast economic growth, a country needs a good natural resource base.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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	(int) 199 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1412',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '957',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energy Now',
			'image' => '20160125032417_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) are two energy monopolies of the state which, everyone agrees, have grown sick to the core and need serious overhauling. Both were created during the Panchayat system and have undergone little reforms since then. The NEA enjoys complete monopoly in the field of hydroelectricity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'short_content' => 'The theme of this conclave which is ‘Unlocking Nepal’s Growth Prospects’ is very timely. It is often presumed that for fast economic growth, a country needs a good natural resource base.',
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		'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968
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Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167
[main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117

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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'E-commerce Ecosystem: Navigating Current Challenges and Shaping the Future',
			'image' => '20240811103452_2024-08-11 22.18.12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After experiencing significant growth in 2021 and 2022, most e-commerce ventures are now facing a slowdown in demand and sluggish revenue growth. During the Covid-induced lockdowns, demand for online services reached record highs as more people began to trust e-commerce platforms. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'id' => '4492',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1284',
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			'title' => '20 years in the WTO (Assessing Economic Gains  and Missed Opportunities)',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1283',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Navigating Nepal's Insurance Landscape',
			'image' => '20240608112253_2024-06-08 23.13.35.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Braving The Challenges',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'DFIs in Nepal : Evolution, Impact and Prospects',
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			'short_content' => 'For a developing country like Nepal with a substantial demand for investment, development finance institutions (DFIs) are becoming an important alternative source of financing, especially for private sector capital growth.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Investment Potential',
			'image' => '20240313050107_2024-03-13 16.49.58.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Will Emerging Nepal Investment Summit 2024 Serve as a Catalyst to Position Nepal as a Premier Investment Destination?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	(int) 6 => array(
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			'title' => 'Private Healthcare Industry : Current Landscape and Future Challenges',
			'image' => '20240211094524_2024-02-11 21.17.07.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Hotel Construction Boom',
			'image' => '20240108092215_2024-01-08 21.21.21.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'LDC Graduation & After',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal in Information and Digital Technology',
			'image' => '20231118082737_Cover Story_November 2023.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1275',
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			'title' => 'Cross-boarder Power Trade: Prospects and Challenges',
			'image' => '20231016093828_2023-10-15 13.56.14.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Madhesh Prospects',
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			'short_content' => 'Madhesh Province has lots of potential, opportunities and resources to fulfil the development aspirations of the local people and to contribute in overall national prosperity. But there are also several challenges that have put the province in a situation of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Exporting Services To The World',
			'image' => '20230808014206_2023-08-08 13.41.29_16x9.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal's competitiveness in goods trade lags behind, there is an increasing urgency for both the government and the private sector to intensify their efforts in diversifying services exports. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'title' => 'Embracing the EV Culture',
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			'short_content' => 'The electric vehicle (EV) market in Nepal is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing consumer demand and a commitment to sustainable transportation. Despite frequently changing government policies and tax rates, the popularity of EVs is on the rise. The import figures reveal a surge in EV imports, with a 66.4% increase in the first nine months of the current fiscal year compared to the previous year. India is the largest supplier of EVs to Nepal, followed by China and South Korea. The government aims to transition to electric vehicles and reduce reliance on petroleum products. EVs offer advantages such as reduced emissions, cost savings, and utilization of Nepal's surplus electricity. However, challenges such as the lack of charging stations, high-interest rates, and inflation still exist. Innovative financing instruments and collaborative efforts between the government and private sector are crucial for promoting public electric mobility. To nurture the EV industry, policy and tax stability are essential for establishing a reliable and supportive environment for manufacturers and consumers.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The New Economy in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the convergence of digital technologies and innovations, is reshaping various aspects of society, including the economy, culture, and individual lives. This revolution is marked by the blurring of lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, driven by technological advancements such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things.  While countries around the world are leveraging these new trends to their advantage, Nepal has been struggling to fully grasp and benefit from the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, there are efforts being made in certain sectors to adapt to this new techno-economic paradigm.  One key aspect of this revolution is the rise of tech companies that operate on digital platforms. Companies like Uber, Alibaba, and Oyo have achieved high valuations and transformed industries like transportation, retail, and hospitality without owning the physical assets traditionally associated with those sectors. These companies exemplify the potential for technology-driven disruption and innovation.  The rapid advancement of information technology has significantly changed the way people work, commute, communicate, and make payments. This shift has disrupted traditional business models, supply chains, and employment patterns. Economists believe that technology will drive the global economy, with the digital revolution unlocking tremendous opportunities.  Nepal, however, has been slow to embrace these changes. The country has not fully capitalized on industrialization in previous revolutions and risks falling behind once again. To catch up, latecomer economies like Nepal can adopt strategies of "leapfrogging," which involve skipping intermediate stages of industrialization and directly adopting advanced technologies. This could involve focusing on start-ups and service-based technologies rather than mass-based production.  Nepal has some strengths that can support its journey towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its young population, with a median age of 25 years, is quick to adopt new technologies as consumers and has the potential to innovate and create new opportunities. The gig economy, where young Nepali workers participate as freelancers or gig workers, has already shown potential in generating foreign currency earnings.  Efforts are being made in Nepal to make sense of the emerging trends and technologies. The Nepal Rastra Bank, for example, has initiated a feasibility study on the adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), positioning the country ahead in exploring the potential of digital currencies. The adoption of digital currency can revolutionize payments, increase financial inclusion, and democratize finance.  Moreover, sectors like agriculture in Nepal can benefit from the adoption of digital technologies. These technologies can increase efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in farming, thereby boosting the contribution of agriculture to the country's GDP. Digital platforms providing information on crop management, pest control, and weather information are already supporting farmers.  In conclusion, while Nepal may be somewhat isolated from the global trends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are efforts being made to adapt and benefit from digital innovations. By leveraging its young population, exploring strategies like leapfrogging, and embracing technologies in sectors like agriculture, Nepal can position itself to harness the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.',
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Business Age : New Economy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The passage discusses the negative impact of the Maoist insurgency on Nepal's economy. It highlights the decline in tourist arrivals, the destruction of telecom infrastructure, and the adverse effects on various sectors such as education and health. The ongoing violence has disrupted social services in remote areas, leading to the desertion of health posts and the fleeing of teachers. The passage emphasizes the importance of peace and security for the country's socio-economic development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'id' => '3853',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1266',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AILING ECONOMY',
			'image' => '20230415084151_Clipboard30.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s economy is passing through one of its worst phases in history. Most of the economic indicators point to a looming crisis. While the government is scrambling to bridge the gap between its revenue and recurring expenditure, the private sector's confidence is waning.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 17 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3806',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1265',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FOREST Versus FURNITURE',
			'image' => '20230306025811_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 18 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3780',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1264',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Going GIG',
			'image' => '20230210073533_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The gig economy, also known as the sharing economy, refers to the labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work rather than permanent jobs. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 19 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3748',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1262',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Parliament’s Priority on Legal Reforms',
			'image' => '20230108053425_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali economy is currently experiencing one of its worst periods. Most economic indicators suggest that a crisis is looming. Economic growth, which averaged 4.9% between 2009 and 2019, contracted to 2.2% in 2020 for the first time in 30 years.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 20 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3725',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1261',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Extractive State, Costly Government Overreach',
			'image' => '20221211081823_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Despite its failure and poor performance in sectors where it is involved, the government seeks to expand its reach and role. The government is perpetuating its exploitative and extractive character through heavy taxation, discretionary power and overregulation, stymieing business innovation and growth in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 21 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3698',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1258',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FRANCHISING IN NEPAL : GROWING MARKET, ZERO REGULATION',
			'image' => '20221114075414_Clipboard22.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The lifestyle of Nepali people has undergone an immense transformation over the past decade or so. From having meals at home to eating out, Nepali society’s preference for food has changed a lot.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 22 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3655',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'POWER OF PRIVATE EQUITY',
			'image' => '20221017073524_00000.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While there might be many factors that kill any business idea, lack of financing opportunity to bankroll the business has been a major reason that compels many Nepali entrepreneurs to abandon their business ideas.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 23 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3656',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''PE/VC Helps on Meeting Investment Gap'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'PE/VC is not a completely new term in Nepal. Even though the government has recently formalized it, the investors with a large fund has been investing under the PE/VC model. Back in 2012/2013, a few companies have started investing in an informal way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 24 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3627',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1239',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A BATTLE OF CHOICES : The Merger Dilemma in the Insurance Sector',
			'image' => '20220912121130_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Six years ago, Beema Samiti - the insurance regulatory authority of Nepal - decided to issue operating licences to 10 new insurance companies. The decision to add a whopping number of insurance companies at that time took many by surprise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 25 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3591',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' REMITTANCE : Risky Reliance',
			'image' => '20220808121700_Clipboard13AA.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What if Nepal either stops receiving remittances or there is a significant decline in the transfer of hard-earned money by Nepali workers abroad? This question—even hypothetical—should give our policymakers a chill. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 26 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3593',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'High Transfer Cost Not Only Reason Discouraging Use of Formal Channels',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal receives a significant share of remittances to GDP every year. The government data shows that the total remittance inflow translated into 22.53% of the total GDP in 2020/21. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 27 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3594',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Can Remittances Support Development in Nepal?',
			'image' => '20220808123341_12121.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Out-migration from Nepal—a landlocked and least- developed country—has surged in the last two decades. Now, a third of households has at least one member abroad and Nepal has one of the largest remittances to GDP ratios (24%  in  2018). ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 28 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3595',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Covid-19 and Impacts on Remittance Flows to Nepal',
			'image' => '20220808123702_Clipboard82.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After the surge of the global pandemic, a slew of lockdown measures were imposed to contain the virus. There were multiple predictions suggesting that the flow of remittance would dwindle in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 29 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3596',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Will Nepali Businesses Get Credit?',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'This time liquidity issues or so called C/D ratio (capping at 90%) of Banking System has really prolonged and Businesses, more particularly SME businesses are suffocating due to unavailability of credit. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 30 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3542',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ban on Import of Automobiles, Misguided Move',
			'image' => '20220704014859_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The automobile industry is interconnected with all gamut of the Nepali economy. The decision of the government regarding restriction on the import of vehicles will have a long-term effect on the government and people alike in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 31 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3547',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''The Automobile Sector is Going Through One of the Most Difficult Times in the History'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Prior to Covid-19 pandemic, the vehicle sales growth was very good. However, the pandemic dealt a blow to the auto mobile sector like it did to other sectors of the economy in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 32 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3548',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Restriction on a Part of Trade is Not a Solution'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The government has restricted the import of ICE vehicles for more than 2 months. It is sad to see that the government still looks at the four-wheelers as a luxury rather than a necessity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 33 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3549',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''Restriction Impacted the Entire Motor Sector'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'What should really be understood is that vehicle is now no more a luxury but a necessity and needs to be reclassified. Vehicle to what extent is a luxury?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 34 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3550',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Automobiles are Not Luxury Products'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The restriction imposed by the government on the import of automobiles has affected the business of the entire automobile sector. If you look at the scenario, the automobile industry is one of the major contributors to the country's revenue.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 35 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3551',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'The Effect of Double Restriction on Loans, Vehicles Piled up at Birgunj Customs'',
			'image' => '20220704021213_Clipboard26.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government's austerity measures and lack of liquidity to reduce the pressure on foreign exchange reserves have had an impact on vehicle imports.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 36 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3473',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1174',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENT : Eyeing Exports',
			'image' => '20220607103309_Clipboard18.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the manufacturing sector is on a sharp decline, the cement industry is experiencing a boom in recent years that is now eying the nearby markets for export as the domestic demands fail to keep up with the production capacity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 37 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3343',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : An Untapped Opportunity for Nepal',
			'image' => '20220406122324_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the last few years, medical tourism has become a buzz word, fashionably coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling to another country for medical care.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 38 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3344',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' "We Need More Trained Manpower to Promote Medical Tourism"',
			'image' => '20220406032627_234.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Dr. Prativa Pandey obtained her medical degree from New Delhi, India and did post graduation in Internal Medicine from Boston, USA. She worked for 10 years in the Boston area and returned to Nepal in 1993.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 39 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3345',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Policy Change a Must for Viability of Medical Tourism',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In a broader sense, Nepalis currently spend billions of rupees on treatment abroad due to a lack of adequate health infrastructure. However, there is a high potential for medical tourism in Nepal. A sizable number of Indians come to Nepal to Tilganga for eye treatment for cataracts.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 40 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3346',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : A Magical Win-Win',
			'image' => '20220406104516_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Medical tourism is simply a joint domain of two domains, as suggested by its name. Renamed "medical value travel," it is described as a purposeful cross-country visit in order to obtain treatment or any form of healthcare service. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 41 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3347',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Leading Asian Countries for Medical Tourism',
			'image' => '20220406105654_11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many people in the world have started travelling to different parts of the world spending huge amount of money for medical treatment. These people will be accompanied by their family and friends who, apart from taking care of their near and dear, also visit the touristic destinations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 42 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3348',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal has Tremendous Potentials',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal as a medical tourism destination has tremendous potential. I am saying this because of my recent experience when I was in an Indian restaurant in the United States',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 43 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3349',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Travel for Wellness',
			'image' => '20220406111138_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For ages, people used to travel considerable distances for medical and wellness treatment. During Roman times people sought out spas and thermal baths. Romans constructed resorts with thermal spas in entire Roman provinces. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 44 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3350',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Grey Tourism on the Rise',
			'image' => '20220406111912_1213.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Grey tourism is a specific niche market that caters towards older travellers. This group represents the largest, fastest growing, richest consumer market on the planet, accounting for half of earth’s consumer spending.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 45 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3279',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1087',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'PROBLEMS OF PLENTY : Power Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => '20220312063859_CS.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s power sector has undergone tremendous development in recent years. Most importantly, the power cuts (locally known as load-shedding) have now become history.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 46 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3280',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1087',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' “Foreign investors feel it is difficult to work in Nepal”',
			'image' => '20220312064632_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ashish Garg is the Vice President of the Independent Power Producers Association Nepal (IPPAN) and Convenor of the Energy Committee of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 47 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3232',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1043',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economic REFORMS 2.0',
			'image' => '20220213084154_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal is still to complete the first generation economic reforms that began in early 1990s or even before that, discussions have already begun on the need for second generation reforms. Is it the right time for second generation reforms? Where exactly are the reforms needed? Nubiz team has tried to explore.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 48 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3197',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1030',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'IPR Frustration',
			'image' => '20220108030745_Clipboard31.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'From Nike sneakers to Louis Vuitton handbags, Nepali consumers can easily purchase any item in the domestic market at a price that is nowhere close to their real or actual price. These knockoff products that closely resemble the global brands have long been flooding the market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 49 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3172',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1029',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Insurance industry’s response to Covid-19',
			'image' => '20211211085234_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the pandemic ravaged the tourism and leisure sectors such as hotels and travel businesses, industrial and financial sectors were also severely affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus and subsequent containment measures introduced by the government.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 50 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3147',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1028',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'UNCOVERING HIDDEN MONEY',
			'image' => '20211113075816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government is asking the private sector and investors to invest in certain priority sectors with a promise that it would not seek the source of income for two years. While the government wants to leverage the hidden cash for the country's development during the crisis',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 51 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3116',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SILVER LINING IN THE TOURISM SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090234_6.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In 2019, about 1.2 million tourists came to Nepal, and the income of tourism and hospitality businesses increased to good levels. Private sector investment also increased significantly in the sector targeting the upcoming Visit Nepal 2020. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 52 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3117',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE WAY FORWARD FOR INSURANCE SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090503_7.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance companies are risk managers. The relationship between their business and risk goes in one direction. As the risk increases, so does the insurance business, and when there is no risk, there is no need for insurance.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 53 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3118',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SIGNS OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH',
			'image' => '20211006090638_8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali private sector has faced various challenges in every era. In the past, we went through a heap of problems including the worsening of labor relations, up to 18 hours of power cuts, and the 2015 earthquake and border blockade',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 54 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3119',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Under-construction Projects Should be Expedited for Quick Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090803_5.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Advancing infrastructure development by considering economic activities and sources available in the country can help improve the economy. However, the priority of political leaders and lawmakers in their constituencies has cast a shadow over our real need for development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 55 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3120',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Improvement Needed in Most Areas for Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090948_4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Due to the adverse situation created by the pandemic and the working style of the government, the country's economic scenario is not looking encouraging. The ‘white paper’ issued by the coalition government and the latest macroeconomic report of the central bank have also painted a bleak picture.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 56 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3121',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Generating 750 MW of Electricity can Add 1 Percent to Nepal’s GDP',
			'image' => '20211006091120_3.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, agriculture has always been considered as the main basis of economic development which is wrong. We need to look towards countries like China and Ethiopia and see how they leaped from agriculture to other sectors such as manufacturing and services',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 57 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3122',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Banking Sector is the Mainstay of the Country's Economic Revival',
			'image' => '20211006091240_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Most of the sectors were affected by the lockdowns and prohibitory orders. However, the banking sector was not affected much.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 58 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3123',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Maintaining fiscal stability and generating employment is important',
			'image' => '20211006091354_1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The financial sector and capital market have performed exceptionally well even when other sectors were reeling with the sharp economic slowdown. Amidst the pandemic, digitalisation of financial services gained a big momentum. ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'RECOVERING Nepal Inc.',
			'image' => '20211006091621_Clipboard48.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal's economy is slowly recovering from the unprecedented crisis brought on by the global pandemic. The signs are promising, but much more effort is required to face the challenges along the way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MCC Nepal Compact – An insight',
			'image' => '20210905082515_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Compact is based on the principles of accountability, transparency, and mutual prosperity and will open up a new chapter in the infrastructure development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3094',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MCC Compact : Costly Delay to Nepal’s Economic Development',
			'image' => '20210905083137_Clipboard47.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Power politics, controversies and unnecessary indecisiveness over the MCC Compact is not only making the fate of the USD 500-million grant for Nepal uncertain but also risks hurting the country’s ambition to transform the economy by exporting its hydroelectricity in the lack of adequate transmission infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3074',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'NRB Needs to Open Licenses for New Development Banks',
			'image' => '20210807050907_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When the new financial setup under the federal system was under preparation, a policy was formulated to encourage commercial banks to expand their presence in all the 753 local levels of the country. However, development banks were excluded as the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO) ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3075',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' LIBERALISING the Licensing Regime',
			'image' => '20210807051607_Clipboard49.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The time has come to cut the bureaucratic red tape and liberalise the licensing regime for a better business environment in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3051',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1024',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Riding THE BOOM',
			'image' => '20210630085625_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Coronavirus raging across the country not only sickened hundreds of thousands of people and claimed over 8,558 lives across the country but also brought economic activity almost to a standstill for months.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3030',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1023',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energising EXPORTS',
			'image' => '20210531021546_Clipboard10.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Improvement in value chains generally leads to production of sophisticated products. These products cost more but there are customers who do not hesitate to pay premium because of the quality. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3006',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1022',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE BIG MELT',
			'image' => '20210501022954_cover story 4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In the first week of April, Community Eye Hospital in Hetauda suddenly started seeing a surge in the number of patients. The hospital, which used to handle around 100 to 150 patients a day, was receiving around 300 visitors on a daily basis, with almost all of them complaining about irritation in their eyes.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2984',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1021',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'WANTED : ELECTRICITY BUYERS',
			'image' => '20210330083821_Cover Story 1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chameliya Hydroelectric Project. The name conjures up images of a long-delayed hydropower project with huge cost overruns. The 30-megawatt project built by state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) started construction in January 2008 and was originally scheduled to come online by May 2011. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 68 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2966',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1020',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Construction Materials INDUSTRY NOW',
			'image' => '20210310102838_Clipboard19.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when many industries in Nepal are still reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with market demand yet to rise to pre-pandemic levels, the construction materials industry is going through a different situation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 69 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2932',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1019',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE CHINA CONUNDRUM',
			'image' => '20210207093114_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Like many traders who import goods from or export goods to China via land, Bed Bahadur Shrestha has become accustomed to a slew of problems at the Nepal-China border crossings. These problems range from wage hike demands made by porters who load and unload goods to intermittent disruptions in movement of cargo trucks due to landslides on rough Himalayan terrain. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 70 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2863',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1018',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' THE SME IMPERATIVE : What would it take to help SMEs get back on their feet',
			'image' => '20210119022843_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the past nine months, exports of handicrafts have dipped dramatically as the international demand for merchandise goods has been decimated due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) reports a 70-80 percent fall in exports and an over 80 percent decline in domestic ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2827',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1017',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Facing the CHALLENGES',
			'image' => '20201219071252_cc.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The coronavirus outbreak, which engulfed the globe after starting from the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, is having a multitude of impacts to women entrepreneurship in Nepal which was showing promising signs prior to the Covid-19 crisis.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 72 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2810',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1016',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Nepal’s Agribusiness Transformation',
			'image' => '20201109032251_Clipboard02.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For Nepal, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been severe and it is unlike past international crises when the events had little to no impact on the Himalayan country. But even in these gloomy times when the threat of the deadly pathogen looms large over the health of the citizens and the country’s economy, a silver ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 73 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2730',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'BANKING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19',
			'image' => '20200917013051_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The four-month-long nationwide lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of cronavirus from late March to mid-July of this year and its subsequent impacts on the economic activities has put a dent on earnings of banks and financial institutions. Of the 27 commercial banks, only five banks have reported increase in profit in the last fiscal year ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 74 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2731',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Time for Banks to Manage Their Books Smartly',
			'image' => '20200917010658_Clipboard17.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali banking sector, in the last 20 years, had to grapple with major disturbances including the Maoist insurgency, 2015 Earthquake, and Indian economic blockade. But the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic has been the most challenging. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2732',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On Banking in the Time of Covid-19',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The Monetary Policy for FY2020/21 has attempted to address many aspects of the economic slowdown brought by the four-month long lockdown. The arrangements encouraged business community members who were in a state of disarray due to the pandemic-induced recession. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 76 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2706',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1014',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Truth Behind Nepal-India Trade Relations',
			'image' => '20200817030322_Clipboard59.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Whenever Nepal-India bilateral relations come under strain, Nepal's economic dependence with the southern neighbour is often highlighted. Indian experts say the open border, transit access through Indian land and seaports, foreign direct investment from India, and India's dominating share in Nepal's foreign trade has benefited Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2682',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1013',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'HOTEL INDUSTRY : Survival for Existence and Beyond',
			'image' => '20200720033531_Newbusinessage_cover Design_Aug_2 - 2nd - Remove.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The series of worldwide unfortunate events over the last six months have dealt a massive blow to the Nepali hotel sector, which has an estimated investment of Rs 100 billion, with both international and domestic travel falling to zero, particularly after governments across the world rushed to impose lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus starting from mid-March.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 78 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2650',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1012',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dr Khatiwada's Third Budget :  Will it Revive the Covid-19 Stricken Economy?',
			'image' => '20200630094753_Clipboard09.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2020/21 was perhaps one of the most anticipated ones, in recent years. The fact that Finance Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada was presenting the budget against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic made the budget one to watch out for. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2631',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1011',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Covid-19 Impact on Economy : Counting the Cost and the Road to Recovery  ',
			'image' => '20200524063327_civerstory.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'In normal times, Nepal gets over 300,000 foreign visitors during the spring tourist season of March-May with the occupancy rate of hotels soaring to over 60 percent keeping the hospitality industry busy. This time, however, it is different with hotels practically empty and no one working.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2618',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1010',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'NEPALI STARTUP ECOSYSTEM : The Growth So Far & The Future',
			'image' => '20200512035159_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The last two months have been quite eventful for Nepali startups. First, Foodmandu, Nepal’s largest food delivery platform, has secured its second-round investment from Team Ventures, a private equity (PE) firm. Then, Health at Home, a healthcare services portal, also got funding from Business Oxygen (BO2),',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '2585',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1009',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A YEAR AFTER NEPAL INVESTMENT SUMMIT',
			'image' => '20200320085324_nis.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his address to the House of Representatives on February 14, to mark the current government’s second year, highlighted how successful his administration has been in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2586',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1009',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on A year After Nepal Investment Summit',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The present government came to power with the slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’. Happiness is a vague concept; however, material happiness at least requires overall improvement in the standards of living, economic, social and environmental security',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2750',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1006',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' New Face of Women Entrepreneurship',
			'image' => '20201010030357_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Himalayan country is currently witnessing attempts made by women to break through the corporate and entrepreneurial glass ceiling to become master of their own destiny which was elusive for them a couple of decades ago. It is promising in a sense that Nepali women, who were largely confined to household works in the past, have taken charge of their own future. I',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 84 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2780',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Message from President Xi’s Nepal Visit',
			'image' => '20201013014927_sdsd.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Jiang Zemin visited Nepal in 1996, China was barely able make it to the list of top ten economies and was trying to establish itself as the low-cost factory of the world. In 2019, when Xi Jinping came to the Himalayan nation for the first presidential visit by a Chinese President in 23 years,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 85 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2781',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CHINA FIXATION : WILL POLITICAL BONHOMIE TRANSLATE INTO ECONOMIC GAIN FOR NEPAL?',
			'image' => '20201013024850_China Grapix.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Kathmandu in the second week of October, the first official visit by a Chinese President in 23 years, many eyes were on him wondering if he would announce the construction of the much-hyped Kerung-Kathmandu Trans-Himalayan Railway and how large a financial assistance package China would offer to Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 86 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2540',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => '20200226125110_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Clearing House Limited (NCHL), in the month of Poush (December/January), reported that monthly transactions on its connectIPS, an electronic payment system, reached Rs 12.05 billion. The size of the transaction highlights two things. Digital payment is growing in acceptance among ordinary Nepalis and people are getting connected to the broader fintech (financial technology) disruptions taking place the world over. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2541',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Technology is enabling an ecosystem where customers are acquired and served differently than traditional ways. While designing a digital strategy, it is important to understand how customers are acquired and how they are served',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 88 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2901',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1003',
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			'title' => 'CEMENT INDUSTRY WOES : How to Stop it Going from Boom to Bust',
			'image' => '20210116080717_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when the country’s industrial productivity has mostly remained subdued, it is a matter of great pride to note that Nepal has become self-reliant in cement production. Over the last few years, this essential construction material has been witnessing a boom in business which, historically, only a few industries in Nepal had gone through.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 89 => array(
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			'id' => '2881',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1001',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Big Merger : NRB’s Merger Cane and Nepali Banking',
			'image' => '20210115023054_131.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In what looked like students being summoned into the headmaster’s office for a caning, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on June 27 invited chairmen and CEOs of banks and financial institutions to Hotel Yak and Yeti, a five-star property in downtown Kathmandu,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2833',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1000',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Has the Business Climate Changed?',
			'image' => '20210112124401_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ever since KP Sharma Oli assumed the prime ministerial post in February 2018, for the second time, he and several ministers of his cabinet have repeatedly expressed in foreign as well as domestic forums that ‘Nepal is open for business with lucrative investment opportunities’, and that ‘foreign as well as domestic investors should invest in the country without any feeling of hesitation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'id' => '2511',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Hotels in Nepal : THE NEW WAVE',
			'image' => '20190511105700_Clipboard37.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After seven months, it will be Visit Nepal 2020. The goal of this second national tourism promotion campaign (The first was VNY 1998) is to welcome two million foreign visitors. The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign aims to achieve twice as many travellers than the goal set for Tourism Year 2011 and four times bigger than that of Visit Nepal Year 1998. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 92 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2512',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Technology Meets Hospitality',
			'image' => '20190511111432_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In this digital era, when contact with technology is inevitable, any form of business can create disruption in the industry with the wise and clever use of technology. The hospitality industry, till a few years ago, was human intensive with every big and small player striving to provide quality services and amenities through its vast resource pool.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 93 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2513',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Hotel Boom in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Hoteliers are very much prepared; today we have enough hotels to accommodate 2.5 million guests in term of rooms, beds, food and entertainment. Eventually, by combining all categories of hotels, i.e. stars hotels, resorts, lodges, guest houses and even the homestay facilities, we have the strength in numbers to make Visit Nepal 2020 a grand success.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 94 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2481',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '997',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'ICTC GROUP’S NEW GEN : TAKING OVER THE REINS',
			'image' => '20190412013409_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Any transition from the old generation to the new comes with both opportunities and challenges. In a family-run business, this becomes more evident due to the complexities in managing various aspects such as maintaining the values of the family, incorporating ideas of the new generation, and most importantly the succession planning, factors that are considered essential to the success of the businesses and for charting their direction for the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 95 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2449',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '996',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Mutual Funds in Nepal : Way Ahead',
			'image' => '20190317123055_Clipboard04.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The development or growth or expansion of the capital market in Nepal has been talked about a lot. However, these discussions have made little real impact.  Thus, the Nepali capital market is operating in an ecosystem where many components are entirely absent.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 96 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2418',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '995',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The SSF Challenge',
			'image' => '20190222082452_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'On November 27, 2018, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli launched the ambitious, contribution-based Social Security Fund (SSF) claiming it as the ‘beginning of a new era’ amid lavish fanfare. “It is a historical achievement for us. The launch of the scheme will create a better work environment in the country,” said the Prime Minister unveiling the welfare scheme',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'short_content' => 'In August 2016, when the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) decided to start process of purchasing two Airbus wide-body aircraft for long-haul flights, a bright light of hope for a revival of the struggling national flag carrier was seen at the horizon.',
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			'short_content' => 'Global trade, today, is undergoing a transformation with the balance fast shifting towards trade in services from trade in goods. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the governing body for international trade, trade in services now accounts for two-thirds of the global trade in value added terms.',
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			'title' => 'Banking Strategies and Disruptions : Nepali Banking Industry’s New Direction',
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			'short_content' => '81  years after Nepal Bank Limited was established as the first commercial bank in the country, the Nepali banking sector has seemingly come to a crossroads. From issues related to liquidity management, financial inclusion, productive sector lending, CSR obligations and sustainable business practices',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Distorting the Private Sector',
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			'short_content' => 'The country’s private sector is increasingly turning to easier but more financially rewarding ventures like trading and partnering with the public sector on procurements and extraction of resources.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Problems in New Tax Arrangements and Taxation Reform',
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			'short_content' => 'The first federal government budget indicates that the government has taken a backward momentum in terms of taxation. There has been 5 percent customs buty increment on the impart of agricultural commodities. Such used to be levied also in the part but was abandoned long time back. Likewise, tariffs on the import of many commodities have been increased. To stop illegal imports of goods and commodities, the government should have reduced the tariffs. ',
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			'short_content' => 'According to Harvard economist Daron Acemoglu, tax revenue as percentage of GDP is generally higher among countries with higher per capita income. Nepal is an anomaly in the global trend. For a country with modest economy, Nepal displays a strong state capacity for taxation.',
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Taxation Transition: Finding the Ideal Tax Template',
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			'short_content' => 'During his recent trip to the United States to participate in the annual meeting of The World Bank, Minister for Finance Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada presented Nepal as the most competitive country in South Asia in terms of corporate income tax.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'BBIN : Will Sub-regionalism Work?',
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			'short_content' => 'Across the world, markets have enjoyed tremendous success by embracing free trade regimes within regional markets with connectivity as the nucleus of such practices of economic integration. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the European Union (EU) bloc is a vivid example. Within regionalism, countries have even experimented with sub-regionalism to realise the economic potential of underdeveloped pockets.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Connectivity : Trailblazer of Regional Integration',
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			'short_content' => 'Trade and economic integration at the bilateral and regional levels is gaining ground in the wake of the faltering global trading system. The looming dissension against the rules of international trade by the US administration not only debilitated the functioning of the World Trade Organization (WTO) but also reckoned to the re-emergence of old mercantilist theory,',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Regional Integration',
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			'short_content' => 'The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a Jaipur (India) based NGO working in the areas of trade, economy and environment, organised a regional policy dialogue on “Connectivity Imperatives in the Bay of Bengal Region” in New Delhi on May 2 and 3.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
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			'title' => 'Breaking Away from the Zero-sum Paradigm​',
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			'short_content' => 'The foreign policy of every country is guided by national interests and priorities. In the context of the growing Nepal-China relationship, it is essential for Nepal to maintain a sound relationship with both India and China in order to ensure success of its foreign policy.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Dancing with the Dragon : The Road Ahead to Nepal-China Economic Relations',
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			'short_content' => 'A previously little-known locality of Jhapa spreading across areas of Kamal Rural Municipality and Gauradaha and Damak municipalities has caught national attention due to its high economic significance. Located about 9 kilometres from the Damak section of the East-West Highway,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Economics of Sports : More than Fan Fever',
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			'short_content' => 'Behind this worldwide football euphoria and the curiosity about who will lift the trophy, are the economic benefits the host country, the governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), event sponsors, brands, broadcasters, advertisers, marketers and numerous other businesses, big and small, will reap from the quadrennial sporting event. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Economics of Sports',
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			'short_content' => 'Sports is also an indicator of a country’s societal and economic development. The performance of players in international competitions reflects the state of development. Nepal has not reached the stage where we can execute plans related to sports in well managed ways.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'A Win-Win Strategy for Liquidity Management',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal needs massive investment for its economic growth. We should be very careful while designing economic policies that must support the long-term economic growth objectives of the government. The current level of investment, though meeting the annual target set by the government,',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Credit Crunch : Beyond a Wake Up Call For Banking Sector',
			'image' => '20180514032903_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Times are hard for Nepali banks and financial institutions (BFIs). They have been struggling with the ongoing shortage of loanable funds which started in December 2017.  From construction of hydropower projects, industrial expansion, real estate and housing transactions to sales of vehicles, many commercial, infrastructure development and manufacturing activities have been hit by the problem.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management  1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The shortage of loanable funds has been caused by several factors. The outflow of Nepal is for overseas work opportunities has declined in recent time which can be attributed to the recent political developments that has been signaling political stability in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, there is a tendency of revolving around the same issues instead of searching for the options to come out of the troubles. We have been continuously hearing about issues like sluggishness in capital expenditure, swelling trade deficit and distributive budget since 2048 BS.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '2101',
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Top 30 Business Houses : Leading the Way',
			'image' => '20180403103039_Clipboard69.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'This article discusses the top 30 Nepali business houses, highlighting their history, growth, diversification, management practices, political connections, controversies, and future expansion plans. These business houses have played a significant role in Nepal's economy, venturing into various sectors such as banking, insurance, tourism, hospitality, health, education, IT, real estate, housing, and hydropower. The article emphasizes the benefits of diversified business operations for these groups, allowing them to withstand market shocks and navigate political and economic uncertainties. It also mentions the generational transition within these family businesses and their increasing engagement with politics. Despite controversies and allegations, these business houses continue to thrive and have optimistic plans for further investments and market development in Nepal.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Securing Intellectual Property Rights',
			'image' => '20180312112200_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property Right (IPR) plays a vital role for economies to thrive in today’s competitive world.  Countries have been adopting rigorous legal and technical measures to secure the intellectual properties (IPs) which they consider very important to attract investments and also to secure their national interests.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '2078',
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			'title' => 'Trademark Administration in Nepal',
			'image' => '20180313095356_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A  trademark often referred to as a ‘creation of the mind’ is an intellectual property. UK law defines a trademark as “a sign capable of being represented graphically which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of another undertaking” ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Intellectual Property Rights ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property (IP) is an essential tool for the economic development of any country. Four factors that drive the engine of IP smoothly are creation, promotion, protection and use of IP. In Nepal, there is no dearth of creative activities coming out from academic and research organisations as well as technical professionals who produce literary, artistic, musical and scientific creations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2050',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Changing HR Dynamics in Nepal  ',
			'image' => '20180220104009_Clipboard50.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'There is a growing sense of realization among Nepali employers that focusing only on activities including production, sales and marketing, for example, are largely insufficient to meet the organisational objectives and to mitigate the existing and future challenges.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The traditional mindset still prevails in many organisations when it comes to human resource management. It sees people as liabilities whereas the modern philosophy of HRM takes people as the most important asset in the organization.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The frustration of people is generally directed towards the lack of career growth opportunities. People keep on working but are unaware about the next step for growth. This is so partly because many organisations have failed to design clear career paths for their employees and communicate with them. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
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			'title' => 'Analyzing Manufacturing Prospects',
			'image' => '20180121115146_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Economies have thrived expanding their manufacturing base by reforming industrial policies, diversifying outputs, scaling-up production processes and systems, attracting global investments and upgrading connectivity and power-supplies. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Manufacturing Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Cost of doing business in Nepal has gone up for everybody whether exporters, importers or domestic-based producers. For the export market, fulfilling business commitments in time and remaining competitive is difficult. It may diminish our preferential value. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Health  for All : Accelerating Universal Healthcare Coverage in Nepal',
			'image' => '20171223103203_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Access to healthcare for the average Nepali has significantly improved in the last three decades. The increasing availability of better healthcare services in the country has led to a rise in almost all health related indicators.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1998',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Healthcare Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The main challenge in the health sector is that people have to bear all the expenses of the health care in Nepal. Opening such a big institution definitely brings more patients and causes more stress. The patients are more stressed when they have to pay more than their potential.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 126 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '979',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Startup Ecosystem : Is it the Next Growth Engine for Nepal?',
			'image' => '20171113111636_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? How can a small venture starting from scratch take centre-stage in the world of business? How can young people realise their ideas in business to bring innovative solutions and positive changes to society? ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Buddha in Business Management',
			'image' => '20171008101524_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been over 2,500 years since Gautam Buddha enlightened the world with his teachings encouraging people to follow the path of non-violence, truthfulness and righteousness. More than two and a half millennia later, the world continues to remember his teachings in the form of Buddhism,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 128 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1936',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“We keep coexistence in mind”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'One requires honesty and credibility to run a successful business. We at CE try to strive for this as much as possible; we avoid taking any bad action against anyone. There is no unhealthy competition between us and our competitors nor do we have any negativity towards them.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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	(int) 129 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1937',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Planning, organisational management and motivation are main components of Buddhist management”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The universal definition of management is to manage tactfully. In Buddhism too, the meaning is not that different. It refers to management of life. Buddha’s main concern was to understand how to manage the life that we live, in order to be able to gain the maximum benefit from our lives. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 130 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1919',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '25 Years of Unilever Nepal : Charting New Heights in FMCG',
			'image' => '20170914013755_coverstory.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been a glorious 25 years of Unilever in Nepal. Unilever Nepal Limited (UNL) has seen several ups and downs in this journey, ultimately establishing itself as perhaps the largest FMCG manufacturer in the country. Profitability along with positive impact on society and the environment has been at the core of the business model of UNL. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 131 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1920',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Our vision is to grow the business whilst decoupling environmental footprint from the company’s growth and to increase positive social impact”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali FMCG sector is a mixture of importers and unorganised players who mostly infringe the IPRs and also don’t comply with local rules in letter or spirit. To accelerate the FMCG sector’s growth, Nepal requires big investments in local manufacturing, marketing, capability of people and distribution infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1884',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Robust Business of FMCGs ',
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			'short_content' => 'FMCG sector has championed the Nepali manufacturing establishment. Now with the right set of policies and an environment conducive to business, Nepali FMCG brands aim  high to take on the international market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali FMCG Sector',
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			'short_content' => 'With the growing income of the lower and middle class people, the market is growing. Many FMCG products are somewhat essential in nature, particularly the products with market brands. All FNCG companies in the country are doing very well. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => '20170712094552_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Known to many as ‘a country of villages’ just a few decades ago, Nepal is witnessing a rapid shift in rural and urban demographics. The change in demographics is attributed to the internal migration that has speeded up over the last 3-4 decades. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Planned urbanisation has become a priority development agenda for the government and political parties lately. This is because of the rapid urbanisation due to the sharp increase in the urban population.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1807',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economics of Insurance',
			'image' => '20170614095308_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance is familiar to the general people of insurance of car, buildings and contents and life insurance.  Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1818',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Insurance Sector&nbsp;</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Towards Golden Days</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170615100049_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The interest of general public towards insurance over the last few years has grown as more Nepalis are looking to get insured.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1785',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT<br /> Some Policy Issues</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170512120504_co.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Things have been progressing quite encouragingly following the March 2-3 mega-event that was the Nepal Investment Summit 2017 organised by the Ministry of Industry. Investors, mostly foreign, expressed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest a total of USD 13.52 billion, in various  sectors in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1795',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Foreign Direct  Investment',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal has entered into a new era of policy reform. We call it the second generation reform.  We have seen the changes over the past five to six months in this regard. The government has brought different policies and Acts to improve the investment climate in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>INVESTMENT IN NEPAL<br /> Materialising the Opportunities</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170424091033_c0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Of late, both the public and private sectors seem to have realised the importance of infrastructure growth and investment. While the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), a major umbrella organisation of the Nepali private sector organised a mega event titled Nepal Infrastructure Summit (NIS) 2017 on February 19, ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1763',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Infrastructure Summit : Evidence Based Advocacy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Infrastructure has various effects on an economy. Primarily, infrastructure stimulates economic development by encouraging production activities. It produces various crowding in effects, including in production activities and quality of life for households, which thus benefits the entire society. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 142 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1764',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“It is important to engage domestic investors in bringing foreign investments”',
			'image' => '20170424095943_c00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The undertaking was aimed at informing potential foreign investors about the recent reforms at the policy level and conveying the message that Nepal is a suitable destination for doing business. On this, the participants signed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest in potential sectors. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1765',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Investment in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Lack of basic infrastructures has forced us to witness economic growth averaging 4 percent over the last one decade. The infrastructure gap has directly hurt development activities. As we are aspiring to reach the level of middle-income nations by 2030,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1735',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE IRON IS HOT!',
			'image' => '20170326103544_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal which used to be mostly dependent on the import of iron and steel construction materials over a decade ago now seems to be on the way to become self-sufficient in such products. Steel bars, rods and galvanized corrugated sheets for roofing are the major items produced in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1736',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Iron and Steel Industries in Nepal ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The industrialisation of Nepal gained momentum after the political changes in 1990. The liberal and open market policies helped the industries to grow. Nevertheless, the Maoist insurgency put a major roadblock in the pace of the country’s industrialisation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1706',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '50 YEARS OF NEPALI TOURISM',
			'image' => '20170224030513_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The years since 2015 are considered to be historic for the Nepali tourism sector.  The years marked the golden jubilee celebrations of some important hotels and tourism related organisations that have been pivotal for the institutional development of the tourism sector in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Tourism Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Airlines are essential to the tourism industry of any country. Maintaining quality of services in the airlines is important to ensure a healthy inflow of tourists. The quality of an airliner doesn't just depend on serving good food and providing a glass of champagne.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1685',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENTING THE GROWTH',
			'image' => '20170122032905_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The word ‘self-sufficiency’ has become a well worn cliché when it comes to industrial development in Nepal. Given the steep decline in industrial activities over the past one and half decades due to various obstructing elements, it has become very difficult for many manufacturing sector companies',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Cement Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali cement manufacturers started their business at a very hard time during the Maoist insurgency around 15-16 years ago. They are still facing a lot of problems. Nevertheless, gradually with the increasing market the number ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1664',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CSR: HOW DOING GOOD FOR SOCIETY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS',
			'image' => '20161219011734_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many companies in Nepal are engaged in various activities of social importance. From education and health, livelihood of marginalized communities, infrastructure development in rural areas, increasing inclusiveness, preservation of heritage or ecological conservation,  MNCs, BFIs, business houses 
',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 151 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1665',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CSR Initiatives of Some Companies in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'At present, many businesses in Nepal have integrated CSR and philanthropic activities into their day-to-day operations. The consciousness of social responsibility has led them to share their profit with the society',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1638',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '967',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AUTO MARKET ON HIGH GEAR',
			'image' => '20161125124218_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Badly affected by last year’s twin shocks that came in the form of the April and May earthquakes and India's border blockade, the Nepali automobile market is in recent months recovering in a fast way. The entire car business which was down almost 50 percent for the whole of 2015, is now growing at a pace',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '966',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px">ARE WE CATCHING UP<br /> WITH THE WORLD</span><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">Nepali Business Houses in New Economy</span></p>',
			'image' => '20161016024336_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'One of the characteristics  of Nepali business houses is that they like to be omnipresent, in every sector, in all parts of the country and even may be abroad.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 154 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Investment for Change</strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="font-size:16px">Envisioning Nepal&#39;s Economic Prospetrity</span></strong></p>',
			'image' => '20160926042128_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Change’ has become an overhyped buzzword in Nepal with the country going through various political and social changes over the past few decades. And these changes have so far failed to translate into economic prosperity and development as the prolonged political instability has been dragging the economy down. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 155 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1585',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 156 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1586',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Lifetime Achievement in Business Leadership Award to Chiranjilal Agrawal -  Honouring the Legend ',
			'image' => '20160927044032_cs8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chiranjilal Agrawal has played a big role in bringing Nepali industries in general and his family’s own MC (Madanlal-Chiranjilal) Group of Companies to today’s position. He worked continuously to diversify and modernise the Agrawal family business. His father late Dhiraj Agrawal started with a clothes shop in Dharan 97 years ago.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 157 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1587',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Guest Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'It is no secret in today’s world that it is the business community and the entrepreneurs who move the countries ahead. The government must act not as a doer but as facilitator, a promoter and motivator. We need to convey this message not only within the country ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 158 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1588',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Panelist Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => '20160928121826_ps0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal still lacks a sound business environment as the country is passing through difficult times.  Despite this, we have been able to move forward with our hopes latched onto the economy and the people, since we do not have other alternatives.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1589',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Winner Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'I express my sincere gratitude towards New Business Age for the award. This has encouraged me to become more active. Our group has been active across multiple business sectors for the last 97 years. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 160 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1590',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Jury Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => '  The programme was very effective and inspirational.  All the sessions and especially the panel discussion gave a positive message that there are immense business opportunities in Nepal. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1556',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '964',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Advertising Industry Now .. Where is Nepali Advertising Heading',
			'image' => '20160829035802_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => ' The government’s decision to prioritise the production and transmission of domestic ads over foreign made ads could be a watershed moment for the domestic ad industry. How will it face the new challenge and will it be able to sort out its current shortcomings and make good use of the impending boost?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 162 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1557',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '964',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Advertising has become something of a culture at present. The concept of advertising has been firmly established in the business sector in that businesses need to advertise their products and services in order to prosper. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 163 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1558',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '964',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Brand management is an integral part of any marketing campaign. If we can handle the brand management side effectively, advertisements will become more efficient. The agencies as well as the advertisers should have the knowledge about fundamentals of advertisement.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1523',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '963',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Real Sector’s Real Stock Market Deal',
			'image' => '20160729114612_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali stock market has been on a bull run setting new records in recent months. Led by the banks and financial institutions alongside insurance companies, the NEPSE Index has been reaching new heights nearing the 2,000-points mark. The gravity defying high speed increase in the ‘Kathmandu bourse’ overtly showcases the strong confidence of general investors. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 165 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '962',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<strong>LEGIS-LATER?</strong> <br />BILLS STUCK IN PARLIAMENT<br/> MAKING NEPAL AN ECO<span style="color:red;">NO</span>MY.',
			'image' => '20160620012941_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'With the country facing a severe economic recession due to last year’s devastating earthquake and Terai stir, Nepal is in need of all kinds of initiatives from the government including the policy support to end the current economic malaise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '961',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Federal Challenge',
			'image' => '20160525013523_cs4.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'With the promulgation of the new constitution, Nepal has adopted federalism as its administrative system, effectively doing away with its earlier five development regions and 75 districts. The country will be divided into seven states or provinces, the names of which have yet to be determined.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1469',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '960',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Investment in Nepal .. Why, Where & How ?',
			'image' => '20160502015221_cs0.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'The Investment Board and the Ministry of Industry of Nepal have jointly brought out a new guide for investment in Nepal. This follows earlier guide that UNCTAD and ICC had jointly brought out in 2003. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '959',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Marketers pay heed to Women and Villages',
			'image' => '20160325031033_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal abounds in huge new market segments. But, so far, not much has been done. It's high time we analyse these sectors and start appropriate measures to harness this vast untapped potential to make money.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '958',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Health of Nepali Pharma Industry',
			'image' => '20160229041615_;f;sdk.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The good news is the domestic pharmaceutical industry is in good health, despite the massive earthquake of April 25 last year and the ongoing unofficial blockade by India. It’s not that these events have not affected the industry at all but, according to the Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal (APPON), it has battled the odds well to cope with the emerging situation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '956',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal China Trade : Prospects and Challenges',
			'image' => '20160104125041_Clipboard04.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The high Himalayan range in Nepal’s north has always served as a natural barrier prompting the country to trade more across its flat border with India, but the latter’s current blockade against Nepal has forced it to explore the trade prospects with China and tackle the challenges that come in the way. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '955',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Self-Reliant Economy : Myth Vs Reality',
			'image' => '20151127023556_cv.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Will Nepal now learn to not just talk the talk but actually walk the walk when it comes to making the country’s economy more self-reliant as it suffers under the yoke of economic dependency? The general consensus seems to be that it must.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '954',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Business of Festivals',
			'image' => '20151012034645_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Besides a time for fun and enjoyment, festivals have also increasingly become occasions for brisk business. No wonder the Nepali economy is often described as a festival-driven economy. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '953',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Eight Billion Challenge',
			'image' => '20150921012648_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'It’s not going to be easy for banks to comply with the new NRB directive for minimum paid-up capital. However, the banks seem to have no alternative other than to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and meet the challenge. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '953',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Expert's View',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'We took the step so that the capital base of banks widens and small shocks and risks do not affect them. We also want banks to be able to finance big projects on their own without having to seek co-financers; when the paid-up capital increases a bank’s single obligor limit (SOL) is also raised. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'short_content' => 'As a democratic country, what sort of economic policies should Nepal adopt? Shouldn’t the new constitution clearly define such policies? Can the proposed constitutional provisions concerning the country’s economy really come in the way of its development?',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Construction Industry  Now',
			'image' => '20150809051606_small_1436940157.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'As Nepal gears up for the reconstruction phase post earthquake, experts anticipate a healthy growth for the country’s construction industry. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View July 2015',
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			'short_content' => '“We anticipate at least a 40 percent growth in cement demand”',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 179 => array(
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			'title' => 'Rising From The Rubble',
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			'short_content' => 'The devastating 7.6 local magnitude (ML) Gorkha earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 and the subsequent aftershocks have caused more than 30,000 casualties including over 8,600 deaths. In addition to this tragic loss of human lives, the economic toll of the quake is immense. Tourism, agriculture, hydropower, manufacturing, real estate, SMEs, physical infrastructures etc have been hit hard by the quake.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'short_content' => 'Forty-one percent (7,532) schools out of 18,289 were completely destroyed in 49 districts, but 4,650 schools are affected in 14 major-hit districts. 2,106 toilets and 1,363 drinking water fountains in schools were also destroyed.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Cost of the Earthquake in the Districts',
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			'short_content' => 'Fourteen of the country’s 75 districts were hit hardest by the quake. Districts like Dolakha have been completely devastated. However, even districts where the physical damage is quite low, such as Rupandehi, are facing the economic fallout. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Growing and Growing Cement',
			'image' => '20150820120744_cn.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Cement production in Nepal has been growing sharply over the past few years. The industry is among the country's most flourishing business sectors as the demand of cement is constantly rising. The vast untapped limestone reserves spread across the country have not only lured domestic companies but also the international investors.  ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 183 => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View May 2015',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The cement industry in Nepal is in the growing phase. Nepal is in the initial phase of infrastructural development. There are about 40-50 cement industries in existence in the country. The cement industry has immense scope.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '863',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Driven by Demand',
			'image' => '20150820015504_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali passenger vehicle market has registered a staggering growth. The market of cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) has been growing fast in recent years and new passenger vehicle brands have entered the country. Customers from various income groups are buying different types of four-wheelers which have ultimately started new segments of cars and SUVs in the domestic market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE HIGH-END VIEW',
			'image' => '20150821113354_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'With the increasing demand of new television technologies, high-end TV market in Nepal is expanding at a rapid pace. Fuelled by the rise of tech-savvy young population, rising per capita income and falling prices of TV sets in the recent years, LED, Smart, 3D and Ultra-High Definition TVs have eventually become a must-have for Nepali consumers who are looking to enhance their viewing experience. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'International Airlines Flying High',
			'image' => '20150802113623_1424763399.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal is an increasingly growing market for most foreign airlines operating in the country. This growth is fuelled mainly by the increasing outflow of migrant workers, and, to some extent, the gain in tourist arrivals in a market where the presence of the national flag bearer, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) remains shrunken.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Ushering Nepal In The Smarter Age',
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			'short_content' => 'With the growing tech-savvy population, Nepal's gadget market now has the presence of almost all global and regional smartphone brands. Despite being a small market, Nepal is getting more lucrative to them as the demand for smartphones is on a sharp rise. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '783',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View January 2015',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Samsung is the number one mobile phone brand in the world, with highest market share in total mobile phone sales and highest market share in total smartphone sales. One of the reasons behind its high popularity is that the company is investing millions of dollars every year for research 
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '756',
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			'title' => 'The Himalayan Power Revolution In The Making',
			'image' => '20150831124121_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Almost all stakeholders of Nepal’s hydropower sector are highly encouraged and enthused by the signing of the Power Trade Agreement (PTA) between Nepal and India and the Power Development Agreement (PDA) between Nepal government and India’s GMR and Sutlej for the development of the 900MW Upper Karnali Hydroelectricity Project and 900MW Arun III project respectively. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'The Story of Nepali Startups',
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			'short_content' => 'The startup scene in Nepal has changed significantly over the last five–seven years, with new and young entrepreneurs coming up with innovative ideas every year. Today, though there is no official data, the number of successful startups in Nepal is estimated to be above 50. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '730',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View November 2014',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'echnology sector is all about innovation. Coming up with new ideas only is not just enough for tech entrepreneurs. To sustain growth they must constantly innovate themselves. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Land Linked Nepal',
			'image' => '20151005123559_fjfljfdldsjf.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal is ideally located between India and China to work as a golden land-bridge between them and facilitate their bilateral trade. But for this to happen, all three countries must focus on Nepal's infrastructure development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '929',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'China’s Proposals for Trans-Himalayan Connectivity : Consider Four Economic Corridors',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Following its “New Silk Roads” policies to improve connectivity with neighbouring countries in Asia, China proposed earlier this year to establish a “Trans-Himalaya Economic Region” to be led by India and itself.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '930',
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Benefits of Greater Land Connectivity in South Asia and with China',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Regional cooperation presupposes land connectivity in order to benefit from the economics of geography. During the British Rule in India, South Asia, for all practical purposes, was one economy with freedom of movement of not just goods but also peoples and means of transportation. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => '‘‘Railway and roadway network connecting China and India can change Nepal's fortune’’',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'To transform Nepal from a landlocked country to a land-linked nation, we have only two potential mediums available so far. One is the railway link and the other is the road transport.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '‘‘We need an alternative road  connection to China’’',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'We do see this possibility. Laos is an example for us. It’s also a landlocked country like Nepal. They have built major highways connecting the country with Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Growth Prospect',
			'image' => '20150909014359_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Nepal does have natural resources. They are of course our growth potentials but not necessarily the key element needed for our future economic growth. The key element is human resource; the brainpower, creativity of the people, entrepreneurship and innovation. If we can unlock our human potential,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '956',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Speakers' Voices',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The theme of this conclave which is ‘Unlocking Nepal’s Growth Prospects’ is very timely. It is often presumed that for fast economic growth, a country needs a good natural resource base.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energy Now',
			'image' => '20160125032417_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) are two energy monopolies of the state which, everyone agrees, have grown sick to the core and need serious overhauling. Both were created during the Panchayat system and have undergone little reforms since then. The NEA enjoys complete monopoly in the field of hydroelectricity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'image' => null,
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		'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971
View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933
View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473
Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968
Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200
Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167
[main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117

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Code Context
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                  <?php echo $this->Html->link($issue_title['MagazineIssue']['title'], 
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			'title' => 'E-commerce Ecosystem: Navigating Current Challenges and Shaping the Future',
			'image' => '20240811103452_2024-08-11 22.18.12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After experiencing significant growth in 2021 and 2022, most e-commerce ventures are now facing a slowdown in demand and sluggish revenue growth. During the Covid-induced lockdowns, demand for online services reached record highs as more people began to trust e-commerce platforms. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => '20 years in the WTO (Assessing Economic Gains  and Missed Opportunities)',
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			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Navigating Nepal's Insurance Landscape',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Braving The Challenges',
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			'title' => 'DFIs in Nepal : Evolution, Impact and Prospects',
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			'short_content' => 'For a developing country like Nepal with a substantial demand for investment, development finance institutions (DFIs) are becoming an important alternative source of financing, especially for private sector capital growth.',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Investment Potential',
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			'short_content' => 'Will Emerging Nepal Investment Summit 2024 Serve as a Catalyst to Position Nepal as a Premier Investment Destination?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Private Healthcare Industry : Current Landscape and Future Challenges',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Hotel Construction Boom',
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			'status' => true,
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			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Nepal in Information and Digital Technology',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Cross-boarder Power Trade: Prospects and Challenges',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Madhesh Prospects',
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			'short_content' => 'Madhesh Province has lots of potential, opportunities and resources to fulfil the development aspirations of the local people and to contribute in overall national prosperity. But there are also several challenges that have put the province in a situation of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Exporting Services To The World',
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			'short_content' => 'While Nepal's competitiveness in goods trade lags behind, there is an increasing urgency for both the government and the private sector to intensify their efforts in diversifying services exports. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1269',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Embracing the EV Culture',
			'image' => '20230611041349_ev.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The electric vehicle (EV) market in Nepal is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing consumer demand and a commitment to sustainable transportation. Despite frequently changing government policies and tax rates, the popularity of EVs is on the rise. The import figures reveal a surge in EV imports, with a 66.4% increase in the first nine months of the current fiscal year compared to the previous year. India is the largest supplier of EVs to Nepal, followed by China and South Korea. The government aims to transition to electric vehicles and reduce reliance on petroleum products. EVs offer advantages such as reduced emissions, cost savings, and utilization of Nepal's surplus electricity. However, challenges such as the lack of charging stations, high-interest rates, and inflation still exist. Innovative financing instruments and collaborative efforts between the government and private sector are crucial for promoting public electric mobility. To nurture the EV industry, policy and tax stability are essential for establishing a reliable and supportive environment for manufacturers and consumers.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 14 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3879',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1267',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The New Economy in Nepal',
			'image' => '20230602021920_bb.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the convergence of digital technologies and innovations, is reshaping various aspects of society, including the economy, culture, and individual lives. This revolution is marked by the blurring of lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, driven by technological advancements such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things.  While countries around the world are leveraging these new trends to their advantage, Nepal has been struggling to fully grasp and benefit from the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, there are efforts being made in certain sectors to adapt to this new techno-economic paradigm.  One key aspect of this revolution is the rise of tech companies that operate on digital platforms. Companies like Uber, Alibaba, and Oyo have achieved high valuations and transformed industries like transportation, retail, and hospitality without owning the physical assets traditionally associated with those sectors. These companies exemplify the potential for technology-driven disruption and innovation.  The rapid advancement of information technology has significantly changed the way people work, commute, communicate, and make payments. This shift has disrupted traditional business models, supply chains, and employment patterns. Economists believe that technology will drive the global economy, with the digital revolution unlocking tremendous opportunities.  Nepal, however, has been slow to embrace these changes. The country has not fully capitalized on industrialization in previous revolutions and risks falling behind once again. To catch up, latecomer economies like Nepal can adopt strategies of "leapfrogging," which involve skipping intermediate stages of industrialization and directly adopting advanced technologies. This could involve focusing on start-ups and service-based technologies rather than mass-based production.  Nepal has some strengths that can support its journey towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its young population, with a median age of 25 years, is quick to adopt new technologies as consumers and has the potential to innovate and create new opportunities. The gig economy, where young Nepali workers participate as freelancers or gig workers, has already shown potential in generating foreign currency earnings.  Efforts are being made in Nepal to make sense of the emerging trends and technologies. The Nepal Rastra Bank, for example, has initiated a feasibility study on the adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), positioning the country ahead in exploring the potential of digital currencies. The adoption of digital currency can revolutionize payments, increase financial inclusion, and democratize finance.  Moreover, sectors like agriculture in Nepal can benefit from the adoption of digital technologies. These technologies can increase efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in farming, thereby boosting the contribution of agriculture to the country's GDP. Digital platforms providing information on crop management, pest control, and weather information are already supporting farmers.  In conclusion, while Nepal may be somewhat isolated from the global trends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are efforts being made to adapt and benefit from digital innovations. By leveraging its young population, exploring strategies like leapfrogging, and embracing technologies in sectors like agriculture, Nepal can position itself to harness the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 15 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3898',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1267',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Business Age : New Economy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The passage discusses the negative impact of the Maoist insurgency on Nepal's economy. It highlights the decline in tourist arrivals, the destruction of telecom infrastructure, and the adverse effects on various sectors such as education and health. The ongoing violence has disrupted social services in remote areas, leading to the desertion of health posts and the fleeing of teachers. The passage emphasizes the importance of peace and security for the country's socio-economic development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 16 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3853',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1266',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AILING ECONOMY',
			'image' => '20230415084151_Clipboard30.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s economy is passing through one of its worst phases in history. Most of the economic indicators point to a looming crisis. While the government is scrambling to bridge the gap between its revenue and recurring expenditure, the private sector's confidence is waning.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 17 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3806',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1265',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FOREST Versus FURNITURE',
			'image' => '20230306025811_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 18 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3780',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1264',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Going GIG',
			'image' => '20230210073533_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The gig economy, also known as the sharing economy, refers to the labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work rather than permanent jobs. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 19 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3748',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1262',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Parliament’s Priority on Legal Reforms',
			'image' => '20230108053425_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali economy is currently experiencing one of its worst periods. Most economic indicators suggest that a crisis is looming. Economic growth, which averaged 4.9% between 2009 and 2019, contracted to 2.2% in 2020 for the first time in 30 years.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 20 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3725',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1261',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Extractive State, Costly Government Overreach',
			'image' => '20221211081823_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Despite its failure and poor performance in sectors where it is involved, the government seeks to expand its reach and role. The government is perpetuating its exploitative and extractive character through heavy taxation, discretionary power and overregulation, stymieing business innovation and growth in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 21 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3698',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1258',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FRANCHISING IN NEPAL : GROWING MARKET, ZERO REGULATION',
			'image' => '20221114075414_Clipboard22.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The lifestyle of Nepali people has undergone an immense transformation over the past decade or so. From having meals at home to eating out, Nepali society’s preference for food has changed a lot.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 22 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3655',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'POWER OF PRIVATE EQUITY',
			'image' => '20221017073524_00000.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While there might be many factors that kill any business idea, lack of financing opportunity to bankroll the business has been a major reason that compels many Nepali entrepreneurs to abandon their business ideas.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 23 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3656',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''PE/VC Helps on Meeting Investment Gap'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'PE/VC is not a completely new term in Nepal. Even though the government has recently formalized it, the investors with a large fund has been investing under the PE/VC model. Back in 2012/2013, a few companies have started investing in an informal way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 24 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3627',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1239',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A BATTLE OF CHOICES : The Merger Dilemma in the Insurance Sector',
			'image' => '20220912121130_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Six years ago, Beema Samiti - the insurance regulatory authority of Nepal - decided to issue operating licences to 10 new insurance companies. The decision to add a whopping number of insurance companies at that time took many by surprise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 25 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3591',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' REMITTANCE : Risky Reliance',
			'image' => '20220808121700_Clipboard13AA.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What if Nepal either stops receiving remittances or there is a significant decline in the transfer of hard-earned money by Nepali workers abroad? This question—even hypothetical—should give our policymakers a chill. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 26 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3593',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'High Transfer Cost Not Only Reason Discouraging Use of Formal Channels',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal receives a significant share of remittances to GDP every year. The government data shows that the total remittance inflow translated into 22.53% of the total GDP in 2020/21. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 27 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3594',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Can Remittances Support Development in Nepal?',
			'image' => '20220808123341_12121.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Out-migration from Nepal—a landlocked and least- developed country—has surged in the last two decades. Now, a third of households has at least one member abroad and Nepal has one of the largest remittances to GDP ratios (24%  in  2018). ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 28 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3595',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Covid-19 and Impacts on Remittance Flows to Nepal',
			'image' => '20220808123702_Clipboard82.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After the surge of the global pandemic, a slew of lockdown measures were imposed to contain the virus. There were multiple predictions suggesting that the flow of remittance would dwindle in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 29 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3596',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Will Nepali Businesses Get Credit?',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'This time liquidity issues or so called C/D ratio (capping at 90%) of Banking System has really prolonged and Businesses, more particularly SME businesses are suffocating due to unavailability of credit. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 30 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3542',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ban on Import of Automobiles, Misguided Move',
			'image' => '20220704014859_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The automobile industry is interconnected with all gamut of the Nepali economy. The decision of the government regarding restriction on the import of vehicles will have a long-term effect on the government and people alike in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 31 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3547',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''The Automobile Sector is Going Through One of the Most Difficult Times in the History'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Prior to Covid-19 pandemic, the vehicle sales growth was very good. However, the pandemic dealt a blow to the auto mobile sector like it did to other sectors of the economy in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 32 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3548',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Restriction on a Part of Trade is Not a Solution'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The government has restricted the import of ICE vehicles for more than 2 months. It is sad to see that the government still looks at the four-wheelers as a luxury rather than a necessity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 33 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3549',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''Restriction Impacted the Entire Motor Sector'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'What should really be understood is that vehicle is now no more a luxury but a necessity and needs to be reclassified. Vehicle to what extent is a luxury?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 34 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3550',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Automobiles are Not Luxury Products'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The restriction imposed by the government on the import of automobiles has affected the business of the entire automobile sector. If you look at the scenario, the automobile industry is one of the major contributors to the country's revenue.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 35 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3551',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'The Effect of Double Restriction on Loans, Vehicles Piled up at Birgunj Customs'',
			'image' => '20220704021213_Clipboard26.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government's austerity measures and lack of liquidity to reduce the pressure on foreign exchange reserves have had an impact on vehicle imports.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 36 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3473',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1174',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENT : Eyeing Exports',
			'image' => '20220607103309_Clipboard18.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the manufacturing sector is on a sharp decline, the cement industry is experiencing a boom in recent years that is now eying the nearby markets for export as the domestic demands fail to keep up with the production capacity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 37 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3343',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : An Untapped Opportunity for Nepal',
			'image' => '20220406122324_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the last few years, medical tourism has become a buzz word, fashionably coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling to another country for medical care.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 38 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3344',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' "We Need More Trained Manpower to Promote Medical Tourism"',
			'image' => '20220406032627_234.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Dr. Prativa Pandey obtained her medical degree from New Delhi, India and did post graduation in Internal Medicine from Boston, USA. She worked for 10 years in the Boston area and returned to Nepal in 1993.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 39 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3345',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Policy Change a Must for Viability of Medical Tourism',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In a broader sense, Nepalis currently spend billions of rupees on treatment abroad due to a lack of adequate health infrastructure. However, there is a high potential for medical tourism in Nepal. A sizable number of Indians come to Nepal to Tilganga for eye treatment for cataracts.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 40 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3346',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : A Magical Win-Win',
			'image' => '20220406104516_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Medical tourism is simply a joint domain of two domains, as suggested by its name. Renamed "medical value travel," it is described as a purposeful cross-country visit in order to obtain treatment or any form of healthcare service. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 41 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3347',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Leading Asian Countries for Medical Tourism',
			'image' => '20220406105654_11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many people in the world have started travelling to different parts of the world spending huge amount of money for medical treatment. These people will be accompanied by their family and friends who, apart from taking care of their near and dear, also visit the touristic destinations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 42 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3348',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal has Tremendous Potentials',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal as a medical tourism destination has tremendous potential. I am saying this because of my recent experience when I was in an Indian restaurant in the United States',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 43 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3349',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Travel for Wellness',
			'image' => '20220406111138_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For ages, people used to travel considerable distances for medical and wellness treatment. During Roman times people sought out spas and thermal baths. Romans constructed resorts with thermal spas in entire Roman provinces. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 44 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3350',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Grey Tourism on the Rise',
			'image' => '20220406111912_1213.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Grey tourism is a specific niche market that caters towards older travellers. This group represents the largest, fastest growing, richest consumer market on the planet, accounting for half of earth’s consumer spending.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 45 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3279',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1087',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'PROBLEMS OF PLENTY : Power Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => '20220312063859_CS.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s power sector has undergone tremendous development in recent years. Most importantly, the power cuts (locally known as load-shedding) have now become history.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 46 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3280',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1087',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' “Foreign investors feel it is difficult to work in Nepal”',
			'image' => '20220312064632_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ashish Garg is the Vice President of the Independent Power Producers Association Nepal (IPPAN) and Convenor of the Energy Committee of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 47 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3232',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1043',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economic REFORMS 2.0',
			'image' => '20220213084154_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal is still to complete the first generation economic reforms that began in early 1990s or even before that, discussions have already begun on the need for second generation reforms. Is it the right time for second generation reforms? Where exactly are the reforms needed? Nubiz team has tried to explore.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 48 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3197',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1030',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'IPR Frustration',
			'image' => '20220108030745_Clipboard31.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'From Nike sneakers to Louis Vuitton handbags, Nepali consumers can easily purchase any item in the domestic market at a price that is nowhere close to their real or actual price. These knockoff products that closely resemble the global brands have long been flooding the market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 49 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3172',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1029',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Insurance industry’s response to Covid-19',
			'image' => '20211211085234_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the pandemic ravaged the tourism and leisure sectors such as hotels and travel businesses, industrial and financial sectors were also severely affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus and subsequent containment measures introduced by the government.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 50 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3147',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1028',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'UNCOVERING HIDDEN MONEY',
			'image' => '20211113075816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government is asking the private sector and investors to invest in certain priority sectors with a promise that it would not seek the source of income for two years. While the government wants to leverage the hidden cash for the country's development during the crisis',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 51 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3116',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SILVER LINING IN THE TOURISM SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090234_6.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In 2019, about 1.2 million tourists came to Nepal, and the income of tourism and hospitality businesses increased to good levels. Private sector investment also increased significantly in the sector targeting the upcoming Visit Nepal 2020. ',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE WAY FORWARD FOR INSURANCE SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090503_7.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance companies are risk managers. The relationship between their business and risk goes in one direction. As the risk increases, so does the insurance business, and when there is no risk, there is no need for insurance.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'SIGNS OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH',
			'image' => '20211006090638_8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali private sector has faced various challenges in every era. In the past, we went through a heap of problems including the worsening of labor relations, up to 18 hours of power cuts, and the 2015 earthquake and border blockade',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Under-construction Projects Should be Expedited for Quick Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090803_5.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Advancing infrastructure development by considering economic activities and sources available in the country can help improve the economy. However, the priority of political leaders and lawmakers in their constituencies has cast a shadow over our real need for development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Improvement Needed in Most Areas for Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090948_4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Due to the adverse situation created by the pandemic and the working style of the government, the country's economic scenario is not looking encouraging. The ‘white paper’ issued by the coalition government and the latest macroeconomic report of the central bank have also painted a bleak picture.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3121',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Generating 750 MW of Electricity can Add 1 Percent to Nepal’s GDP',
			'image' => '20211006091120_3.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, agriculture has always been considered as the main basis of economic development which is wrong. We need to look towards countries like China and Ethiopia and see how they leaped from agriculture to other sectors such as manufacturing and services',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 57 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3122',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Banking Sector is the Mainstay of the Country's Economic Revival',
			'image' => '20211006091240_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Most of the sectors were affected by the lockdowns and prohibitory orders. However, the banking sector was not affected much.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 58 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3123',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Maintaining fiscal stability and generating employment is important',
			'image' => '20211006091354_1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The financial sector and capital market have performed exceptionally well even when other sectors were reeling with the sharp economic slowdown. Amidst the pandemic, digitalisation of financial services gained a big momentum. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'RECOVERING Nepal Inc.',
			'image' => '20211006091621_Clipboard48.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal's economy is slowly recovering from the unprecedented crisis brought on by the global pandemic. The signs are promising, but much more effort is required to face the challenges along the way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3092',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MCC Nepal Compact – An insight',
			'image' => '20210905082515_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Compact is based on the principles of accountability, transparency, and mutual prosperity and will open up a new chapter in the infrastructure development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 61 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3094',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1026',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MCC Compact : Costly Delay to Nepal’s Economic Development',
			'image' => '20210905083137_Clipboard47.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Power politics, controversies and unnecessary indecisiveness over the MCC Compact is not only making the fate of the USD 500-million grant for Nepal uncertain but also risks hurting the country’s ambition to transform the economy by exporting its hydroelectricity in the lack of adequate transmission infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 62 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3074',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'NRB Needs to Open Licenses for New Development Banks',
			'image' => '20210807050907_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When the new financial setup under the federal system was under preparation, a policy was formulated to encourage commercial banks to expand their presence in all the 753 local levels of the country. However, development banks were excluded as the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO) ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 63 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3075',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1025',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' LIBERALISING the Licensing Regime',
			'image' => '20210807051607_Clipboard49.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The time has come to cut the bureaucratic red tape and liberalise the licensing regime for a better business environment in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 64 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3051',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1024',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Riding THE BOOM',
			'image' => '20210630085625_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Coronavirus raging across the country not only sickened hundreds of thousands of people and claimed over 8,558 lives across the country but also brought economic activity almost to a standstill for months.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3030',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1023',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energising EXPORTS',
			'image' => '20210531021546_Clipboard10.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Improvement in value chains generally leads to production of sophisticated products. These products cost more but there are customers who do not hesitate to pay premium because of the quality. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3006',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1022',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE BIG MELT',
			'image' => '20210501022954_cover story 4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In the first week of April, Community Eye Hospital in Hetauda suddenly started seeing a surge in the number of patients. The hospital, which used to handle around 100 to 150 patients a day, was receiving around 300 visitors on a daily basis, with almost all of them complaining about irritation in their eyes.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2984',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1021',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'WANTED : ELECTRICITY BUYERS',
			'image' => '20210330083821_Cover Story 1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chameliya Hydroelectric Project. The name conjures up images of a long-delayed hydropower project with huge cost overruns. The 30-megawatt project built by state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) started construction in January 2008 and was originally scheduled to come online by May 2011. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 68 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2966',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1020',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Construction Materials INDUSTRY NOW',
			'image' => '20210310102838_Clipboard19.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when many industries in Nepal are still reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with market demand yet to rise to pre-pandemic levels, the construction materials industry is going through a different situation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 69 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2932',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1019',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE CHINA CONUNDRUM',
			'image' => '20210207093114_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Like many traders who import goods from or export goods to China via land, Bed Bahadur Shrestha has become accustomed to a slew of problems at the Nepal-China border crossings. These problems range from wage hike demands made by porters who load and unload goods to intermittent disruptions in movement of cargo trucks due to landslides on rough Himalayan terrain. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 70 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2863',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1018',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' THE SME IMPERATIVE : What would it take to help SMEs get back on their feet',
			'image' => '20210119022843_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the past nine months, exports of handicrafts have dipped dramatically as the international demand for merchandise goods has been decimated due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) reports a 70-80 percent fall in exports and an over 80 percent decline in domestic ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2827',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1017',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Facing the CHALLENGES',
			'image' => '20201219071252_cc.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The coronavirus outbreak, which engulfed the globe after starting from the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, is having a multitude of impacts to women entrepreneurship in Nepal which was showing promising signs prior to the Covid-19 crisis.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 72 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2810',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1016',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Nepal’s Agribusiness Transformation',
			'image' => '20201109032251_Clipboard02.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For Nepal, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been severe and it is unlike past international crises when the events had little to no impact on the Himalayan country. But even in these gloomy times when the threat of the deadly pathogen looms large over the health of the citizens and the country’s economy, a silver ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 73 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2730',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'BANKING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19',
			'image' => '20200917013051_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The four-month-long nationwide lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of cronavirus from late March to mid-July of this year and its subsequent impacts on the economic activities has put a dent on earnings of banks and financial institutions. Of the 27 commercial banks, only five banks have reported increase in profit in the last fiscal year ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 74 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2731',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Time for Banks to Manage Their Books Smartly',
			'image' => '20200917010658_Clipboard17.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali banking sector, in the last 20 years, had to grapple with major disturbances including the Maoist insurgency, 2015 Earthquake, and Indian economic blockade. But the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic has been the most challenging. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 75 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2732',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1015',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On Banking in the Time of Covid-19',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The Monetary Policy for FY2020/21 has attempted to address many aspects of the economic slowdown brought by the four-month long lockdown. The arrangements encouraged business community members who were in a state of disarray due to the pandemic-induced recession. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 76 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2706',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1014',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Truth Behind Nepal-India Trade Relations',
			'image' => '20200817030322_Clipboard59.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Whenever Nepal-India bilateral relations come under strain, Nepal's economic dependence with the southern neighbour is often highlighted. Indian experts say the open border, transit access through Indian land and seaports, foreign direct investment from India, and India's dominating share in Nepal's foreign trade has benefited Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 77 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2682',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1013',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'HOTEL INDUSTRY : Survival for Existence and Beyond',
			'image' => '20200720033531_Newbusinessage_cover Design_Aug_2 - 2nd - Remove.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The series of worldwide unfortunate events over the last six months have dealt a massive blow to the Nepali hotel sector, which has an estimated investment of Rs 100 billion, with both international and domestic travel falling to zero, particularly after governments across the world rushed to impose lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus starting from mid-March.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 78 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2650',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1012',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dr Khatiwada's Third Budget :  Will it Revive the Covid-19 Stricken Economy?',
			'image' => '20200630094753_Clipboard09.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2020/21 was perhaps one of the most anticipated ones, in recent years. The fact that Finance Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada was presenting the budget against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic made the budget one to watch out for. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 79 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2631',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1011',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Covid-19 Impact on Economy : Counting the Cost and the Road to Recovery  ',
			'image' => '20200524063327_civerstory.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'In normal times, Nepal gets over 300,000 foreign visitors during the spring tourist season of March-May with the occupancy rate of hotels soaring to over 60 percent keeping the hospitality industry busy. This time, however, it is different with hotels practically empty and no one working.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 80 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2618',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1010',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'NEPALI STARTUP ECOSYSTEM : The Growth So Far & The Future',
			'image' => '20200512035159_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The last two months have been quite eventful for Nepali startups. First, Foodmandu, Nepal’s largest food delivery platform, has secured its second-round investment from Team Ventures, a private equity (PE) firm. Then, Health at Home, a healthcare services portal, also got funding from Business Oxygen (BO2),',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 81 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2585',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1009',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A YEAR AFTER NEPAL INVESTMENT SUMMIT',
			'image' => '20200320085324_nis.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his address to the House of Representatives on February 14, to mark the current government’s second year, highlighted how successful his administration has been in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 82 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1009',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on A year After Nepal Investment Summit',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The present government came to power with the slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’. Happiness is a vague concept; however, material happiness at least requires overall improvement in the standards of living, economic, social and environmental security',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 83 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2750',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1006',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' New Face of Women Entrepreneurship',
			'image' => '20201010030357_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Himalayan country is currently witnessing attempts made by women to break through the corporate and entrepreneurial glass ceiling to become master of their own destiny which was elusive for them a couple of decades ago. It is promising in a sense that Nepali women, who were largely confined to household works in the past, have taken charge of their own future. I',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 84 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2780',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Message from President Xi’s Nepal Visit',
			'image' => '20201013014927_sdsd.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Jiang Zemin visited Nepal in 1996, China was barely able make it to the list of top ten economies and was trying to establish itself as the low-cost factory of the world. In 2019, when Xi Jinping came to the Himalayan nation for the first presidential visit by a Chinese President in 23 years,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 85 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2781',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CHINA FIXATION : WILL POLITICAL BONHOMIE TRANSLATE INTO ECONOMIC GAIN FOR NEPAL?',
			'image' => '20201013024850_China Grapix.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Kathmandu in the second week of October, the first official visit by a Chinese President in 23 years, many eyes were on him wondering if he would announce the construction of the much-hyped Kerung-Kathmandu Trans-Himalayan Railway and how large a financial assistance package China would offer to Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 86 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2540',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => '20200226125110_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Clearing House Limited (NCHL), in the month of Poush (December/January), reported that monthly transactions on its connectIPS, an electronic payment system, reached Rs 12.05 billion. The size of the transaction highlights two things. Digital payment is growing in acceptance among ordinary Nepalis and people are getting connected to the broader fintech (financial technology) disruptions taking place the world over. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 87 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2541',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1007',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views On DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Technology is enabling an ecosystem where customers are acquired and served differently than traditional ways. While designing a digital strategy, it is important to understand how customers are acquired and how they are served',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 88 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2901',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1003',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENT INDUSTRY WOES : How to Stop it Going from Boom to Bust',
			'image' => '20210116080717_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when the country’s industrial productivity has mostly remained subdued, it is a matter of great pride to note that Nepal has become self-reliant in cement production. Over the last few years, this essential construction material has been witnessing a boom in business which, historically, only a few industries in Nepal had gone through.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 89 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2881',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1001',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Big Merger : NRB’s Merger Cane and Nepali Banking',
			'image' => '20210115023054_131.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In what looked like students being summoned into the headmaster’s office for a caning, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on June 27 invited chairmen and CEOs of banks and financial institutions to Hotel Yak and Yeti, a five-star property in downtown Kathmandu,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 90 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2833',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1000',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Has the Business Climate Changed?',
			'image' => '20210112124401_12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Ever since KP Sharma Oli assumed the prime ministerial post in February 2018, for the second time, he and several ministers of his cabinet have repeatedly expressed in foreign as well as domestic forums that ‘Nepal is open for business with lucrative investment opportunities’, and that ‘foreign as well as domestic investors should invest in the country without any feeling of hesitation.',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Hotels in Nepal : THE NEW WAVE',
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			'short_content' => 'After seven months, it will be Visit Nepal 2020. The goal of this second national tourism promotion campaign (The first was VNY 1998) is to welcome two million foreign visitors. The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign aims to achieve twice as many travellers than the goal set for Tourism Year 2011 and four times bigger than that of Visit Nepal Year 1998. ',
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			'title' => 'When Technology Meets Hospitality',
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			'short_content' => 'In this digital era, when contact with technology is inevitable, any form of business can create disruption in the industry with the wise and clever use of technology. The hospitality industry, till a few years ago, was human intensive with every big and small player striving to provide quality services and amenities through its vast resource pool.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '998',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Hotel Boom in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Hoteliers are very much prepared; today we have enough hotels to accommodate 2.5 million guests in term of rooms, beds, food and entertainment. Eventually, by combining all categories of hotels, i.e. stars hotels, resorts, lodges, guest houses and even the homestay facilities, we have the strength in numbers to make Visit Nepal 2020 a grand success.',
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			'title' => 'ICTC GROUP’S NEW GEN : TAKING OVER THE REINS',
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			'short_content' => 'Any transition from the old generation to the new comes with both opportunities and challenges. In a family-run business, this becomes more evident due to the complexities in managing various aspects such as maintaining the values of the family, incorporating ideas of the new generation, and most importantly the succession planning, factors that are considered essential to the success of the businesses and for charting their direction for the future.',
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			'title' => 'Mutual Funds in Nepal : Way Ahead',
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			'short_content' => 'The development or growth or expansion of the capital market in Nepal has been talked about a lot. However, these discussions have made little real impact.  Thus, the Nepali capital market is operating in an ecosystem where many components are entirely absent.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'The SSF Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'On November 27, 2018, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli launched the ambitious, contribution-based Social Security Fund (SSF) claiming it as the ‘beginning of a new era’ amid lavish fanfare. “It is a historical achievement for us. The launch of the scheme will create a better work environment in the country,” said the Prime Minister unveiling the welfare scheme',
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			'title' => 'Too Big to Fail : Saving NAC from the Claws of Greed',
			'image' => '20190122020426_Clipboard12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In August 2016, when the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) decided to start process of purchasing two Airbus wide-body aircraft for long-haul flights, a bright light of hope for a revival of the struggling national flag carrier was seen at the horizon.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '992',
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			'title' => 'How Export of Services can Balance Nepal’s Trade',
			'image' => '20181223111245_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Global trade, today, is undergoing a transformation with the balance fast shifting towards trade in services from trade in goods. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the governing body for international trade, trade in services now accounts for two-thirds of the global trade in value added terms.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '991',
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			'title' => 'Banking Strategies and Disruptions : Nepali Banking Industry’s New Direction',
			'image' => '20181116022537_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => '81  years after Nepal Bank Limited was established as the first commercial bank in the country, the Nepali banking sector has seemingly come to a crossroads. From issues related to liquidity management, financial inclusion, productive sector lending, CSR obligations and sustainable business practices',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '990',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Distorting the Private Sector',
			'image' => '20181007011305_Clipboard38.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The country’s private sector is increasingly turning to easier but more financially rewarding ventures like trading and partnering with the public sector on procurements and extraction of resources.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Problems in New Tax Arrangements and Taxation Reform',
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			'short_content' => 'The first federal government budget indicates that the government has taken a backward momentum in terms of taxation. There has been 5 percent customs buty increment on the impart of agricultural commodities. Such used to be levied also in the part but was abandoned long time back. Likewise, tariffs on the import of many commodities have been increased. To stop illegal imports of goods and commodities, the government should have reduced the tariffs. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Indirect Taxes in Nepal : Challenges and Trends',
			'image' => '20180910022816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'According to Harvard economist Daron Acemoglu, tax revenue as percentage of GDP is generally higher among countries with higher per capita income. Nepal is an anomaly in the global trend. For a country with modest economy, Nepal displays a strong state capacity for taxation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '989',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal’s Taxation Transition: Finding the Ideal Tax Template',
			'image' => '20180910030853_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'During his recent trip to the United States to participate in the annual meeting of The World Bank, Minister for Finance Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada presented Nepal as the most competitive country in South Asia in terms of corporate income tax.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'BBIN : Will Sub-regionalism Work?',
			'image' => '20180806023952_Clipboard43.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Across the world, markets have enjoyed tremendous success by embracing free trade regimes within regional markets with connectivity as the nucleus of such practices of economic integration. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the European Union (EU) bloc is a vivid example. Within regionalism, countries have even experimented with sub-regionalism to realise the economic potential of underdeveloped pockets.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Connectivity : Trailblazer of Regional Integration',
			'image' => '20180806025500_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Trade and economic integration at the bilateral and regional levels is gaining ground in the wake of the faltering global trading system. The looming dissension against the rules of international trade by the US administration not only debilitated the functioning of the World Trade Organization (WTO) but also reckoned to the re-emergence of old mercantilist theory,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '988',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Regional Integration',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a Jaipur (India) based NGO working in the areas of trade, economy and environment, organised a regional policy dialogue on “Connectivity Imperatives in the Bay of Bengal Region” in New Delhi on May 2 and 3.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2193',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Breaking Away from the Zero-sum Paradigm​',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The foreign policy of every country is guided by national interests and priorities. In the context of the growing Nepal-China relationship, it is essential for Nepal to maintain a sound relationship with both India and China in order to ensure success of its foreign policy.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2195',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dancing with the Dragon : The Road Ahead to Nepal-China Economic Relations',
			'image' => '20180706031803_Clipboard104.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A previously little-known locality of Jhapa spreading across areas of Kamal Rural Municipality and Gauradaha and Damak municipalities has caught national attention due to its high economic significance. Located about 9 kilometres from the Damak section of the East-West Highway,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2163',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Economics of Sports : More than Fan Fever',
			'image' => '20180615095940_Clipboard54.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Behind this worldwide football euphoria and the curiosity about who will lift the trophy, are the economic benefits the host country, the governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), event sponsors, brands, broadcasters, advertisers, marketers and numerous other businesses, big and small, will reap from the quadrennial sporting event. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 110 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2164',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Economics of Sports',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Sports is also an indicator of a country’s societal and economic development. The performance of players in international competitions reflects the state of development. Nepal has not reached the stage where we can execute plans related to sports in well managed ways.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2131',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A Win-Win Strategy for Liquidity Management',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal needs massive investment for its economic growth. We should be very careful while designing economic policies that must support the long-term economic growth objectives of the government. The current level of investment, though meeting the annual target set by the government,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Credit Crunch : Beyond a Wake Up Call For Banking Sector',
			'image' => '20180514032903_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Times are hard for Nepali banks and financial institutions (BFIs). They have been struggling with the ongoing shortage of loanable funds which started in December 2017.  From construction of hydropower projects, industrial expansion, real estate and housing transactions to sales of vehicles, many commercial, infrastructure development and manufacturing activities have been hit by the problem.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management  1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The shortage of loanable funds has been caused by several factors. The outflow of Nepal is for overseas work opportunities has declined in recent time which can be attributed to the recent political developments that has been signaling political stability in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2134',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, there is a tendency of revolving around the same issues instead of searching for the options to come out of the troubles. We have been continuously hearing about issues like sluggishness in capital expenditure, swelling trade deficit and distributive budget since 2048 BS.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2101',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '984',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal’s Top 30 Business Houses : Leading the Way',
			'image' => '20180403103039_Clipboard69.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'This article discusses the top 30 Nepali business houses, highlighting their history, growth, diversification, management practices, political connections, controversies, and future expansion plans. These business houses have played a significant role in Nepal's economy, venturing into various sectors such as banking, insurance, tourism, hospitality, health, education, IT, real estate, housing, and hydropower. The article emphasizes the benefits of diversified business operations for these groups, allowing them to withstand market shocks and navigate political and economic uncertainties. It also mentions the generational transition within these family businesses and their increasing engagement with politics. Despite controversies and allegations, these business houses continue to thrive and have optimistic plans for further investments and market development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2077',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Securing Intellectual Property Rights',
			'image' => '20180312112200_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property Right (IPR) plays a vital role for economies to thrive in today’s competitive world.  Countries have been adopting rigorous legal and technical measures to secure the intellectual properties (IPs) which they consider very important to attract investments and also to secure their national interests.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2078',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Trademark Administration in Nepal',
			'image' => '20180313095356_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A  trademark often referred to as a ‘creation of the mind’ is an intellectual property. UK law defines a trademark as “a sign capable of being represented graphically which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of another undertaking” ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2079',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Intellectual Property Rights ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property (IP) is an essential tool for the economic development of any country. Four factors that drive the engine of IP smoothly are creation, promotion, protection and use of IP. In Nepal, there is no dearth of creative activities coming out from academic and research organisations as well as technical professionals who produce literary, artistic, musical and scientific creations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '2050',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Changing HR Dynamics in Nepal  ',
			'image' => '20180220104009_Clipboard50.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'There is a growing sense of realization among Nepali employers that focusing only on activities including production, sales and marketing, for example, are largely insufficient to meet the organisational objectives and to mitigate the existing and future challenges.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The traditional mindset still prevails in many organisations when it comes to human resource management. It sees people as liabilities whereas the modern philosophy of HRM takes people as the most important asset in the organization.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The frustration of people is generally directed towards the lack of career growth opportunities. People keep on working but are unaware about the next step for growth. This is so partly because many organisations have failed to design clear career paths for their employees and communicate with them. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Analyzing Manufacturing Prospects',
			'image' => '20180121115146_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Economies have thrived expanding their manufacturing base by reforming industrial policies, diversifying outputs, scaling-up production processes and systems, attracting global investments and upgrading connectivity and power-supplies. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 123 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Manufacturing Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Cost of doing business in Nepal has gone up for everybody whether exporters, importers or domestic-based producers. For the export market, fulfilling business commitments in time and remaining competitive is difficult. It may diminish our preferential value. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Health  for All : Accelerating Universal Healthcare Coverage in Nepal',
			'image' => '20171223103203_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Access to healthcare for the average Nepali has significantly improved in the last three decades. The increasing availability of better healthcare services in the country has led to a rise in almost all health related indicators.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1998',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Healthcare Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The main challenge in the health sector is that people have to bear all the expenses of the health care in Nepal. Opening such a big institution definitely brings more patients and causes more stress. The patients are more stressed when they have to pay more than their potential.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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	(int) 126 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1966',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '979',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Startup Ecosystem : Is it the Next Growth Engine for Nepal?',
			'image' => '20171113111636_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? How can a small venture starting from scratch take centre-stage in the world of business? How can young people realise their ideas in business to bring innovative solutions and positive changes to society? ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 127 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1927',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Buddha in Business Management',
			'image' => '20171008101524_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been over 2,500 years since Gautam Buddha enlightened the world with his teachings encouraging people to follow the path of non-violence, truthfulness and righteousness. More than two and a half millennia later, the world continues to remember his teachings in the form of Buddhism,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 128 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1936',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“We keep coexistence in mind”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'One requires honesty and credibility to run a successful business. We at CE try to strive for this as much as possible; we avoid taking any bad action against anyone. There is no unhealthy competition between us and our competitors nor do we have any negativity towards them.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 129 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1937',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
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			'title' => '“Planning, organisational management and motivation are main components of Buddhist management”',
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			'short_content' => 'The universal definition of management is to manage tactfully. In Buddhism too, the meaning is not that different. It refers to management of life. Buddha’s main concern was to understand how to manage the life that we live, in order to be able to gain the maximum benefit from our lives. ',
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			'title' => '25 Years of Unilever Nepal : Charting New Heights in FMCG',
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			'short_content' => 'It’s been a glorious 25 years of Unilever in Nepal. Unilever Nepal Limited (UNL) has seen several ups and downs in this journey, ultimately establishing itself as perhaps the largest FMCG manufacturer in the country. Profitability along with positive impact on society and the environment has been at the core of the business model of UNL. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => '“Our vision is to grow the business whilst decoupling environmental footprint from the company’s growth and to increase positive social impact”',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepali FMCG sector is a mixture of importers and unorganised players who mostly infringe the IPRs and also don’t comply with local rules in letter or spirit. To accelerate the FMCG sector’s growth, Nepal requires big investments in local manufacturing, marketing, capability of people and distribution infrastructure.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1884',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Robust Business of FMCGs ',
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			'short_content' => 'FMCG sector has championed the Nepali manufacturing establishment. Now with the right set of policies and an environment conducive to business, Nepali FMCG brands aim  high to take on the international market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '976',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali FMCG Sector',
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			'short_content' => 'With the growing income of the lower and middle class people, the market is growing. Many FMCG products are somewhat essential in nature, particularly the products with market brands. All FNCG companies in the country are doing very well. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1855',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => '20170712094552_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Known to many as ‘a country of villages’ just a few decades ago, Nepal is witnessing a rapid shift in rural and urban demographics. The change in demographics is attributed to the internal migration that has speeded up over the last 3-4 decades. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1856',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Planned urbanisation has become a priority development agenda for the government and political parties lately. This is because of the rapid urbanisation due to the sharp increase in the urban population.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1807',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economics of Insurance',
			'image' => '20170614095308_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance is familiar to the general people of insurance of car, buildings and contents and life insurance.  Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1818',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Insurance Sector&nbsp;</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Towards Golden Days</strong></span></p>',
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			'short_content' => 'The interest of general public towards insurance over the last few years has grown as more Nepalis are looking to get insured.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 138 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1785',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT<br /> Some Policy Issues</strong></span></p>',
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			'short_content' => 'Things have been progressing quite encouragingly following the March 2-3 mega-event that was the Nepal Investment Summit 2017 organised by the Ministry of Industry. Investors, mostly foreign, expressed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest a total of USD 13.52 billion, in various  sectors in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1795',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Foreign Direct  Investment',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal has entered into a new era of policy reform. We call it the second generation reform.  We have seen the changes over the past five to six months in this regard. The government has brought different policies and Acts to improve the investment climate in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 140 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1762',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>INVESTMENT IN NEPAL<br /> Materialising the Opportunities</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170424091033_c0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Of late, both the public and private sectors seem to have realised the importance of infrastructure growth and investment. While the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), a major umbrella organisation of the Nepali private sector organised a mega event titled Nepal Infrastructure Summit (NIS) 2017 on February 19, ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 141 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1763',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Infrastructure Summit : Evidence Based Advocacy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Infrastructure has various effects on an economy. Primarily, infrastructure stimulates economic development by encouraging production activities. It produces various crowding in effects, including in production activities and quality of life for households, which thus benefits the entire society. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 142 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1764',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“It is important to engage domestic investors in bringing foreign investments”',
			'image' => '20170424095943_c00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The undertaking was aimed at informing potential foreign investors about the recent reforms at the policy level and conveying the message that Nepal is a suitable destination for doing business. On this, the participants signed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest in potential sectors. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1765',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Investment in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Lack of basic infrastructures has forced us to witness economic growth averaging 4 percent over the last one decade. The infrastructure gap has directly hurt development activities. As we are aspiring to reach the level of middle-income nations by 2030,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE IRON IS HOT!',
			'image' => '20170326103544_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal which used to be mostly dependent on the import of iron and steel construction materials over a decade ago now seems to be on the way to become self-sufficient in such products. Steel bars, rods and galvanized corrugated sheets for roofing are the major items produced in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1736',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Iron and Steel Industries in Nepal ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The industrialisation of Nepal gained momentum after the political changes in 1990. The liberal and open market policies helped the industries to grow. Nevertheless, the Maoist insurgency put a major roadblock in the pace of the country’s industrialisation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1706',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '50 YEARS OF NEPALI TOURISM',
			'image' => '20170224030513_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The years since 2015 are considered to be historic for the Nepali tourism sector.  The years marked the golden jubilee celebrations of some important hotels and tourism related organisations that have been pivotal for the institutional development of the tourism sector in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Tourism Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Airlines are essential to the tourism industry of any country. Maintaining quality of services in the airlines is important to ensure a healthy inflow of tourists. The quality of an airliner doesn't just depend on serving good food and providing a glass of champagne.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1685',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENTING THE GROWTH',
			'image' => '20170122032905_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The word ‘self-sufficiency’ has become a well worn cliché when it comes to industrial development in Nepal. Given the steep decline in industrial activities over the past one and half decades due to various obstructing elements, it has become very difficult for many manufacturing sector companies',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Cement Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali cement manufacturers started their business at a very hard time during the Maoist insurgency around 15-16 years ago. They are still facing a lot of problems. Nevertheless, gradually with the increasing market the number ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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			'id' => '1664',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CSR: HOW DOING GOOD FOR SOCIETY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS',
			'image' => '20161219011734_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many companies in Nepal are engaged in various activities of social importance. From education and health, livelihood of marginalized communities, infrastructure development in rural areas, increasing inclusiveness, preservation of heritage or ecological conservation,  MNCs, BFIs, business houses 
',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 151 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1665',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CSR Initiatives of Some Companies in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'At present, many businesses in Nepal have integrated CSR and philanthropic activities into their day-to-day operations. The consciousness of social responsibility has led them to share their profit with the society',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1638',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '967',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AUTO MARKET ON HIGH GEAR',
			'image' => '20161125124218_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Badly affected by last year’s twin shocks that came in the form of the April and May earthquakes and India's border blockade, the Nepali automobile market is in recent months recovering in a fast way. The entire car business which was down almost 50 percent for the whole of 2015, is now growing at a pace',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1614',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '966',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px">ARE WE CATCHING UP<br /> WITH THE WORLD</span><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">Nepali Business Houses in New Economy</span></p>',
			'image' => '20161016024336_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'One of the characteristics  of Nepali business houses is that they like to be omnipresent, in every sector, in all parts of the country and even may be abroad.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 154 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1584',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Investment for Change</strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="font-size:16px">Envisioning Nepal&#39;s Economic Prospetrity</span></strong></p>',
			'image' => '20160926042128_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Change’ has become an overhyped buzzword in Nepal with the country going through various political and social changes over the past few decades. And these changes have so far failed to translate into economic prosperity and development as the prolonged political instability has been dragging the economy down. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 155 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1585',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 156 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1586',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Lifetime Achievement in Business Leadership Award to Chiranjilal Agrawal -  Honouring the Legend ',
			'image' => '20160927044032_cs8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chiranjilal Agrawal has played a big role in bringing Nepali industries in general and his family’s own MC (Madanlal-Chiranjilal) Group of Companies to today’s position. He worked continuously to diversify and modernise the Agrawal family business. His father late Dhiraj Agrawal started with a clothes shop in Dharan 97 years ago.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 157 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1587',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Guest Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'It is no secret in today’s world that it is the business community and the entrepreneurs who move the countries ahead. The government must act not as a doer but as facilitator, a promoter and motivator. We need to convey this message not only within the country ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 158 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Panelist Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => '20160928121826_ps0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal still lacks a sound business environment as the country is passing through difficult times.  Despite this, we have been able to move forward with our hopes latched onto the economy and the people, since we do not have other alternatives.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1589',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Winner Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'I express my sincere gratitude towards New Business Age for the award. This has encouraged me to become more active. Our group has been active across multiple business sectors for the last 97 years. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 160 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1590',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Jury Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => '  The programme was very effective and inspirational.  All the sessions and especially the panel discussion gave a positive message that there are immense business opportunities in Nepal. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 161 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1556',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '964',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Advertising Industry Now .. Where is Nepali Advertising Heading',
			'image' => '20160829035802_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => ' The government’s decision to prioritise the production and transmission of domestic ads over foreign made ads could be a watershed moment for the domestic ad industry. How will it face the new challenge and will it be able to sort out its current shortcomings and make good use of the impending boost?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 162 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1557',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '964',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Advertising has become something of a culture at present. The concept of advertising has been firmly established in the business sector in that businesses need to advertise their products and services in order to prosper. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 163 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '964',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali Advertising Industry 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Brand management is an integral part of any marketing campaign. If we can handle the brand management side effectively, advertisements will become more efficient. The agencies as well as the advertisers should have the knowledge about fundamentals of advertisement.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 164 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1523',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '963',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Real Sector’s Real Stock Market Deal',
			'image' => '20160729114612_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali stock market has been on a bull run setting new records in recent months. Led by the banks and financial institutions alongside insurance companies, the NEPSE Index has been reaching new heights nearing the 2,000-points mark. The gravity defying high speed increase in the ‘Kathmandu bourse’ overtly showcases the strong confidence of general investors. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 165 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1506',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '962',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<strong>LEGIS-LATER?</strong> <br />BILLS STUCK IN PARLIAMENT<br/> MAKING NEPAL AN ECO<span style="color:red;">NO</span>MY.',
			'image' => '20160620012941_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'With the country facing a severe economic recession due to last year’s devastating earthquake and Terai stir, Nepal is in need of all kinds of initiatives from the government including the policy support to end the current economic malaise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 166 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1488',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '961',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Federal Challenge',
			'image' => '20160525013523_cs4.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'With the promulgation of the new constitution, Nepal has adopted federalism as its administrative system, effectively doing away with its earlier five development regions and 75 districts. The country will be divided into seven states or provinces, the names of which have yet to be determined.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 167 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1469',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '960',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Investment in Nepal .. Why, Where & How ?',
			'image' => '20160502015221_cs0.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'The Investment Board and the Ministry of Industry of Nepal have jointly brought out a new guide for investment in Nepal. This follows earlier guide that UNCTAD and ICC had jointly brought out in 2003. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 168 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'title' => ' Marketers pay heed to Women and Villages',
			'image' => '20160325031033_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal abounds in huge new market segments. But, so far, not much has been done. It's high time we analyse these sectors and start appropriate measures to harness this vast untapped potential to make money.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1433',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '958',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Health of Nepali Pharma Industry',
			'image' => '20160229041615_;f;sdk.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The good news is the domestic pharmaceutical industry is in good health, despite the massive earthquake of April 25 last year and the ongoing unofficial blockade by India. It’s not that these events have not affected the industry at all but, according to the Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal (APPON), it has battled the odds well to cope with the emerging situation.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1391',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '956',
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			'title' => 'Nepal China Trade : Prospects and Challenges',
			'image' => '20160104125041_Clipboard04.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The high Himalayan range in Nepal’s north has always served as a natural barrier prompting the country to trade more across its flat border with India, but the latter’s current blockade against Nepal has forced it to explore the trade prospects with China and tackle the challenges that come in the way. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Self-Reliant Economy : Myth Vs Reality',
			'image' => '20151127023556_cv.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Will Nepal now learn to not just talk the talk but actually walk the walk when it comes to making the country’s economy more self-reliant as it suffers under the yoke of economic dependency? The general consensus seems to be that it must.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Business of Festivals',
			'image' => '20151012034645_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Besides a time for fun and enjoyment, festivals have also increasingly become occasions for brisk business. No wonder the Nepali economy is often described as a festival-driven economy. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'title' => 'The Eight Billion Challenge',
			'image' => '20150921012648_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'It’s not going to be easy for banks to comply with the new NRB directive for minimum paid-up capital. However, the banks seem to have no alternative other than to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and meet the challenge. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Expert's View',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'We took the step so that the capital base of banks widens and small shocks and risks do not affect them. We also want banks to be able to finance big projects on their own without having to seek co-financers; when the paid-up capital increases a bank’s single obligor limit (SOL) is also raised. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '952',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economy in New Constitution',
			'image' => '20150823033939_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'As a democratic country, what sort of economic policies should Nepal adopt? Shouldn’t the new constitution clearly define such policies? Can the proposed constitutional provisions concerning the country’s economy really come in the way of its development?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '952',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Some Expert Suggestions on Draft Constitution',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In a roundtable discussion on the draft constitution titled Economic Concerns in the Draft Constitution organised by Samriddhi, The Prosperity Foundation and Nepal Economic Forum (NEF) experts discussed the importance of having a sound economic stance along with social and development related issues in the constitution.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 177 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1250',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '928',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Construction Industry  Now',
			'image' => '20150809051606_small_1436940157.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'As Nepal gears up for the reconstruction phase post earthquake, experts anticipate a healthy growth for the country’s construction industry. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 178 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1251',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '928',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View July 2015',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => '“We anticipate at least a 40 percent growth in cement demand”',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 179 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1219',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '910',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Rising From The Rubble',
			'image' => '20150820105725_cs(6).jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The devastating 7.6 local magnitude (ML) Gorkha earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 and the subsequent aftershocks have caused more than 30,000 casualties including over 8,600 deaths. In addition to this tragic loss of human lives, the economic toll of the quake is immense. Tourism, agriculture, hydropower, manufacturing, real estate, SMEs, physical infrastructures etc have been hit hard by the quake.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 180 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1220',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '910',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Assessing the Impact of the Great Earthquake',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Forty-one percent (7,532) schools out of 18,289 were completely destroyed in 49 districts, but 4,650 schools are affected in 14 major-hit districts. 2,106 toilets and 1,363 drinking water fountains in schools were also destroyed.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 181 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1221',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '910',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Cost of the Earthquake in the Districts',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Fourteen of the country’s 75 districts were hit hardest by the quake. Districts like Dolakha have been completely devastated. However, even districts where the physical damage is quite low, such as Rupandehi, are facing the economic fallout. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 182 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1199',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '889',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Growing and Growing Cement',
			'image' => '20150820120744_cn.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Cement production in Nepal has been growing sharply over the past few years. The industry is among the country's most flourishing business sectors as the demand of cement is constantly rising. The vast untapped limestone reserves spread across the country have not only lured domestic companies but also the international investors.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 183 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1200',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '889',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View May 2015',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The cement industry in Nepal is in the growing phase. Nepal is in the initial phase of infrastructural development. There are about 40-50 cement industries in existence in the country. The cement industry has immense scope.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 184 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1176',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '863',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Driven by Demand',
			'image' => '20150820015504_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali passenger vehicle market has registered a staggering growth. The market of cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) has been growing fast in recent years and new passenger vehicle brands have entered the country. Customers from various income groups are buying different types of four-wheelers which have ultimately started new segments of cars and SUVs in the domestic market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 185 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1146',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '839',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'THE HIGH-END VIEW',
			'image' => '20150821113354_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'With the increasing demand of new television technologies, high-end TV market in Nepal is expanding at a rapid pace. Fuelled by the rise of tech-savvy young population, rising per capita income and falling prices of TV sets in the recent years, LED, Smart, 3D and Ultra-High Definition TVs have eventually become a must-have for Nepali consumers who are looking to enhance their viewing experience. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 186 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1118',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '811',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'International Airlines Flying High',
			'image' => '20150802113623_1424763399.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal is an increasingly growing market for most foreign airlines operating in the country. This growth is fuelled mainly by the increasing outflow of migrant workers, and, to some extent, the gain in tourist arrivals in a market where the presence of the national flag bearer, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) remains shrunken.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 187 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1049',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '783',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ushering Nepal In The Smarter Age',
			'image' => '20150824025942_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'With the growing tech-savvy population, Nepal's gadget market now has the presence of almost all global and regional smartphone brands. Despite being a small market, Nepal is getting more lucrative to them as the demand for smartphones is on a sharp rise. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 188 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1050',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '783',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View January 2015',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Samsung is the number one mobile phone brand in the world, with highest market share in total mobile phone sales and highest market share in total smartphone sales. One of the reasons behind its high popularity is that the company is investing millions of dollars every year for research 
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			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1035',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '756',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Himalayan Power Revolution In The Making',
			'image' => '20150831124121_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Almost all stakeholders of Nepal’s hydropower sector are highly encouraged and enthused by the signing of the Power Trade Agreement (PTA) between Nepal and India and the Power Development Agreement (PDA) between Nepal government and India’s GMR and Sutlej for the development of the 900MW Upper Karnali Hydroelectricity Project and 900MW Arun III project respectively. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '996',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '730',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Story of Nepali Startups',
			'image' => '20150902014421_Clipboard01.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The startup scene in Nepal has changed significantly over the last five–seven years, with new and young entrepreneurs coming up with innovative ideas every year. Today, though there is no official data, the number of successful startups in Nepal is estimated to be above 50. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 191 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '730',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts' View November 2014',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'echnology sector is all about innovation. Coming up with new ideas only is not just enough for tech entrepreneurs. To sustain growth they must constantly innovate themselves. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 192 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '928',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Land Linked Nepal',
			'image' => '20151005123559_fjfljfdldsjf.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal is ideally located between India and China to work as a golden land-bridge between them and facilitate their bilateral trade. But for this to happen, all three countries must focus on Nepal's infrastructure development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 193 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '929',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'China’s Proposals for Trans-Himalayan Connectivity : Consider Four Economic Corridors',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Following its “New Silk Roads” policies to improve connectivity with neighbouring countries in Asia, China proposed earlier this year to establish a “Trans-Himalaya Economic Region” to be led by India and itself.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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	(int) 194 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '930',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Benefits of Greater Land Connectivity in South Asia and with China',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Regional cooperation presupposes land connectivity in order to benefit from the economics of geography. During the British Rule in India, South Asia, for all practical purposes, was one economy with freedom of movement of not just goods but also peoples and means of transportation. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '931',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '‘‘Railway and roadway network connecting China and India can change Nepal's fortune’’',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'To transform Nepal from a landlocked country to a land-linked nation, we have only two potential mediums available so far. One is the railway link and the other is the road transport.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 196 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '932',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '678',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '‘‘We need an alternative road  connection to China’’',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'We do see this possibility. Laos is an example for us. It’s also a landlocked country like Nepal. They have built major highways connecting the country with Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 197 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '955',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Growth Prospect',
			'image' => '20150909014359_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Nepal does have natural resources. They are of course our growth potentials but not necessarily the key element needed for our future economic growth. The key element is human resource; the brainpower, creativity of the people, entrepreneurship and innovation. If we can unlock our human potential,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 198 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '956',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '704',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Speakers' Voices',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The theme of this conclave which is ‘Unlocking Nepal’s Growth Prospects’ is very timely. It is often presumed that for fast economic growth, a country needs a good natural resource base.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 199 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1412',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '957',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Energy Now',
			'image' => '20160125032417_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) are two energy monopolies of the state which, everyone agrees, have grown sick to the core and need serious overhauling. Both were created during the Panchayat system and have undergone little reforms since then. The NEA enjoys complete monopoly in the field of hydroelectricity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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		'magazine_category_id' => '21',
		'title' => 'Energy Now',
		'image' => '20160125032417_cs.jpg',
		'short_content' => 'Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) are two energy monopolies of the state which, everyone agrees, have grown sick to the core and need serious overhauling. Both were created during the Panchayat system and have undergone little reforms since then. The NEA enjoys complete monopoly in the field of hydroelectricity.',
		'status' => true,
		'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
	)
)
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$height = (int) 357
$ratio = (float) 1.1204481792717
$img_width = (int) 160
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View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971
View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933
View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473
Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968
Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200
Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167
[main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117

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                  <?php echo $this->Html->link($issue_title['MagazineIssue']['title'], 
$viewFile = '/var/www/html/newbusinessage.com/app/View/MagazineArticles/category.ctp'
$dataForView = array(
	'current_user' => null,
	'logged_in' => false
)
$current_user = null
$logged_in = false
$cat_id = '21'
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			'id' => '4536',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1285',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'E-commerce Ecosystem: Navigating Current Challenges and Shaping the Future',
			'image' => '20240811103452_2024-08-11 22.18.12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After experiencing significant growth in 2021 and 2022, most e-commerce ventures are now facing a slowdown in demand and sluggish revenue growth. During the Covid-induced lockdowns, demand for online services reached record highs as more people began to trust e-commerce platforms. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 1 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4492',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1284',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '20 years in the WTO (Assessing Economic Gains  and Missed Opportunities)',
			'image' => '20240708105857_2024-07-08 10.46.33.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '4450',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1283',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Navigating Nepal's Insurance Landscape',
			'image' => '20240608112253_2024-06-08 23.13.35.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 3 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1282',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Braving The Challenges',
			'image' => '20240516015419_2024-05-16 12.39.42.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1281',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'DFIs in Nepal : Evolution, Impact and Prospects',
			'image' => '20240411094212_2024-04-11 21.40.58.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For a developing country like Nepal with a substantial demand for investment, development finance institutions (DFIs) are becoming an important alternative source of financing, especially for private sector capital growth.',
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			'title' => 'Unlocking Nepal's Investment Potential',
			'image' => '20240313050107_2024-03-13 16.49.58.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Will Emerging Nepal Investment Summit 2024 Serve as a Catalyst to Position Nepal as a Premier Investment Destination?',
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			'title' => 'Private Healthcare Industry : Current Landscape and Future Challenges',
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Hotel Construction Boom',
			'image' => '20240108092215_2024-01-08 21.21.21.jpg',
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			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'LDC Graduation & After',
			'image' => '20231213113611_2023-12-13 11.33.36.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Nepal in Information and Digital Technology',
			'image' => '20231118082737_Cover Story_November 2023.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Cross-boarder Power Trade: Prospects and Challenges',
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			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Madhesh Prospects',
			'image' => '20230915053929_2023-09-15 17.23.18.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Madhesh Province has lots of potential, opportunities and resources to fulfil the development aspirations of the local people and to contribute in overall national prosperity. But there are also several challenges that have put the province in a situation of ‘poverty amidst plenty’.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Exporting Services To The World',
			'image' => '20230808014206_2023-08-08 13.41.29_16x9.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While Nepal's competitiveness in goods trade lags behind, there is an increasing urgency for both the government and the private sector to intensify their efforts in diversifying services exports. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1269',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Embracing the EV Culture',
			'image' => '20230611041349_ev.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The electric vehicle (EV) market in Nepal is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing consumer demand and a commitment to sustainable transportation. Despite frequently changing government policies and tax rates, the popularity of EVs is on the rise. The import figures reveal a surge in EV imports, with a 66.4% increase in the first nine months of the current fiscal year compared to the previous year. India is the largest supplier of EVs to Nepal, followed by China and South Korea. The government aims to transition to electric vehicles and reduce reliance on petroleum products. EVs offer advantages such as reduced emissions, cost savings, and utilization of Nepal's surplus electricity. However, challenges such as the lack of charging stations, high-interest rates, and inflation still exist. Innovative financing instruments and collaborative efforts between the government and private sector are crucial for promoting public electric mobility. To nurture the EV industry, policy and tax stability are essential for establishing a reliable and supportive environment for manufacturers and consumers.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 14 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3879',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1267',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The New Economy in Nepal',
			'image' => '20230602021920_bb.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by the convergence of digital technologies and innovations, is reshaping various aspects of society, including the economy, culture, and individual lives. This revolution is marked by the blurring of lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, driven by technological advancements such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things.  While countries around the world are leveraging these new trends to their advantage, Nepal has been struggling to fully grasp and benefit from the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, there are efforts being made in certain sectors to adapt to this new techno-economic paradigm.  One key aspect of this revolution is the rise of tech companies that operate on digital platforms. Companies like Uber, Alibaba, and Oyo have achieved high valuations and transformed industries like transportation, retail, and hospitality without owning the physical assets traditionally associated with those sectors. These companies exemplify the potential for technology-driven disruption and innovation.  The rapid advancement of information technology has significantly changed the way people work, commute, communicate, and make payments. This shift has disrupted traditional business models, supply chains, and employment patterns. Economists believe that technology will drive the global economy, with the digital revolution unlocking tremendous opportunities.  Nepal, however, has been slow to embrace these changes. The country has not fully capitalized on industrialization in previous revolutions and risks falling behind once again. To catch up, latecomer economies like Nepal can adopt strategies of "leapfrogging," which involve skipping intermediate stages of industrialization and directly adopting advanced technologies. This could involve focusing on start-ups and service-based technologies rather than mass-based production.  Nepal has some strengths that can support its journey towards embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Its young population, with a median age of 25 years, is quick to adopt new technologies as consumers and has the potential to innovate and create new opportunities. The gig economy, where young Nepali workers participate as freelancers or gig workers, has already shown potential in generating foreign currency earnings.  Efforts are being made in Nepal to make sense of the emerging trends and technologies. The Nepal Rastra Bank, for example, has initiated a feasibility study on the adoption of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), positioning the country ahead in exploring the potential of digital currencies. The adoption of digital currency can revolutionize payments, increase financial inclusion, and democratize finance.  Moreover, sectors like agriculture in Nepal can benefit from the adoption of digital technologies. These technologies can increase efficiency, productivity, and sustainability in farming, thereby boosting the contribution of agriculture to the country's GDP. Digital platforms providing information on crop management, pest control, and weather information are already supporting farmers.  In conclusion, while Nepal may be somewhat isolated from the global trends of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there are efforts being made to adapt and benefit from digital innovations. By leveraging its young population, exploring strategies like leapfrogging, and embracing technologies in sectors like agriculture, Nepal can position itself to harness the opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.',
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			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3898',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1267',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Business Age : New Economy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The passage discusses the negative impact of the Maoist insurgency on Nepal's economy. It highlights the decline in tourist arrivals, the destruction of telecom infrastructure, and the adverse effects on various sectors such as education and health. The ongoing violence has disrupted social services in remote areas, leading to the desertion of health posts and the fleeing of teachers. The passage emphasizes the importance of peace and security for the country's socio-economic development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3853',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1266',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AILING ECONOMY',
			'image' => '20230415084151_Clipboard30.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s economy is passing through one of its worst phases in history. Most of the economic indicators point to a looming crisis. While the government is scrambling to bridge the gap between its revenue and recurring expenditure, the private sector's confidence is waning.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 17 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3806',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1265',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FOREST Versus FURNITURE',
			'image' => '20230306025811_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => '',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1264',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Going GIG',
			'image' => '20230210073533_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The gig economy, also known as the sharing economy, refers to the labour market characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work rather than permanent jobs. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 19 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3748',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1262',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'New Parliament’s Priority on Legal Reforms',
			'image' => '20230108053425_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali economy is currently experiencing one of its worst periods. Most economic indicators suggest that a crisis is looming. Economic growth, which averaged 4.9% between 2009 and 2019, contracted to 2.2% in 2020 for the first time in 30 years.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 20 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3725',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1261',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Extractive State, Costly Government Overreach',
			'image' => '20221211081823_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Despite its failure and poor performance in sectors where it is involved, the government seeks to expand its reach and role. The government is perpetuating its exploitative and extractive character through heavy taxation, discretionary power and overregulation, stymieing business innovation and growth in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 21 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3698',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1258',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'FRANCHISING IN NEPAL : GROWING MARKET, ZERO REGULATION',
			'image' => '20221114075414_Clipboard22.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The lifestyle of Nepali people has undergone an immense transformation over the past decade or so. From having meals at home to eating out, Nepali society’s preference for food has changed a lot.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 22 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3655',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'POWER OF PRIVATE EQUITY',
			'image' => '20221017073524_00000.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While there might be many factors that kill any business idea, lack of financing opportunity to bankroll the business has been a major reason that compels many Nepali entrepreneurs to abandon their business ideas.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 23 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3656',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1240',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''PE/VC Helps on Meeting Investment Gap'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'PE/VC is not a completely new term in Nepal. Even though the government has recently formalized it, the investors with a large fund has been investing under the PE/VC model. Back in 2012/2013, a few companies have started investing in an informal way.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 24 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3627',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1239',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'A BATTLE OF CHOICES : The Merger Dilemma in the Insurance Sector',
			'image' => '20220912121130_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Six years ago, Beema Samiti - the insurance regulatory authority of Nepal - decided to issue operating licences to 10 new insurance companies. The decision to add a whopping number of insurance companies at that time took many by surprise.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 25 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3591',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' REMITTANCE : Risky Reliance',
			'image' => '20220808121700_Clipboard13AA.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What if Nepal either stops receiving remittances or there is a significant decline in the transfer of hard-earned money by Nepali workers abroad? This question—even hypothetical—should give our policymakers a chill. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 26 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3593',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'High Transfer Cost Not Only Reason Discouraging Use of Formal Channels',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal receives a significant share of remittances to GDP every year. The government data shows that the total remittance inflow translated into 22.53% of the total GDP in 2020/21. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 27 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3594',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Can Remittances Support Development in Nepal?',
			'image' => '20220808123341_12121.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Out-migration from Nepal—a landlocked and least- developed country—has surged in the last two decades. Now, a third of households has at least one member abroad and Nepal has one of the largest remittances to GDP ratios (24%  in  2018). ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 28 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3595',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' Covid-19 and Impacts on Remittance Flows to Nepal',
			'image' => '20220808123702_Clipboard82.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After the surge of the global pandemic, a slew of lockdown measures were imposed to contain the virus. There were multiple predictions suggesting that the flow of remittance would dwindle in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 29 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3596',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1232',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Will Nepali Businesses Get Credit?',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'This time liquidity issues or so called C/D ratio (capping at 90%) of Banking System has really prolonged and Businesses, more particularly SME businesses are suffocating due to unavailability of credit. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 30 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3542',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Ban on Import of Automobiles, Misguided Move',
			'image' => '20220704014859_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The automobile industry is interconnected with all gamut of the Nepali economy. The decision of the government regarding restriction on the import of vehicles will have a long-term effect on the government and people alike in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 31 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3547',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''The Automobile Sector is Going Through One of the Most Difficult Times in the History'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Prior to Covid-19 pandemic, the vehicle sales growth was very good. However, the pandemic dealt a blow to the auto mobile sector like it did to other sectors of the economy in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 32 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3548',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Restriction on a Part of Trade is Not a Solution'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The government has restricted the import of ICE vehicles for more than 2 months. It is sad to see that the government still looks at the four-wheelers as a luxury rather than a necessity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 33 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3549',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ''Restriction Impacted the Entire Motor Sector'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'What should really be understood is that vehicle is now no more a luxury but a necessity and needs to be reclassified. Vehicle to what extent is a luxury?',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 34 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3550',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'Automobiles are Not Luxury Products'',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The restriction imposed by the government on the import of automobiles has affected the business of the entire automobile sector. If you look at the scenario, the automobile industry is one of the major contributors to the country's revenue.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 35 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3551',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1217',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' 'The Effect of Double Restriction on Loans, Vehicles Piled up at Birgunj Customs'',
			'image' => '20220704021213_Clipboard26.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government's austerity measures and lack of liquidity to reduce the pressure on foreign exchange reserves have had an impact on vehicle imports.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 36 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3473',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1174',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENT : Eyeing Exports',
			'image' => '20220607103309_Clipboard18.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the manufacturing sector is on a sharp decline, the cement industry is experiencing a boom in recent years that is now eying the nearby markets for export as the domestic demands fail to keep up with the production capacity.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 37 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3343',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : An Untapped Opportunity for Nepal',
			'image' => '20220406122324_Clipboard16.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the last few years, medical tourism has become a buzz word, fashionably coined by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling to another country for medical care.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 38 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3344',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' "We Need More Trained Manpower to Promote Medical Tourism"',
			'image' => '20220406032627_234.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Dr. Prativa Pandey obtained her medical degree from New Delhi, India and did post graduation in Internal Medicine from Boston, USA. She worked for 10 years in the Boston area and returned to Nepal in 1993.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 39 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3345',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Policy Change a Must for Viability of Medical Tourism',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In a broader sense, Nepalis currently spend billions of rupees on treatment abroad due to a lack of adequate health infrastructure. However, there is a high potential for medical tourism in Nepal. A sizable number of Indians come to Nepal to Tilganga for eye treatment for cataracts.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 40 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3346',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'MEDICAL TOURISM : A Magical Win-Win',
			'image' => '20220406104516_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Medical tourism is simply a joint domain of two domains, as suggested by its name. Renamed "medical value travel," it is described as a purposeful cross-country visit in order to obtain treatment or any form of healthcare service. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 41 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3347',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Leading Asian Countries for Medical Tourism',
			'image' => '20220406105654_11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many people in the world have started travelling to different parts of the world spending huge amount of money for medical treatment. These people will be accompanied by their family and friends who, apart from taking care of their near and dear, also visit the touristic destinations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 42 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3348',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal has Tremendous Potentials',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal as a medical tourism destination has tremendous potential. I am saying this because of my recent experience when I was in an Indian restaurant in the United States',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 43 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3349',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1118',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Travel for Wellness',
			'image' => '20220406111138_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For ages, people used to travel considerable distances for medical and wellness treatment. During Roman times people sought out spas and thermal baths. Romans constructed resorts with thermal spas in entire Roman provinces. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Grey Tourism on the Rise',
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			'short_content' => 'Grey tourism is a specific niche market that caters towards older travellers. This group represents the largest, fastest growing, richest consumer market on the planet, accounting for half of earth’s consumer spending.',
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			'title' => 'PROBLEMS OF PLENTY : Power Sector in Nepal',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal’s power sector has undergone tremendous development in recent years. Most importantly, the power cuts (locally known as load-shedding) have now become history.  ',
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			'title' => ' “Foreign investors feel it is difficult to work in Nepal”',
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			'short_content' => 'Ashish Garg is the Vice President of the Independent Power Producers Association Nepal (IPPAN) and Convenor of the Energy Committee of Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI).',
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			'title' => 'Economic REFORMS 2.0',
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			'short_content' => 'While Nepal is still to complete the first generation economic reforms that began in early 1990s or even before that, discussions have already begun on the need for second generation reforms. Is it the right time for second generation reforms? Where exactly are the reforms needed? Nubiz team has tried to explore.',
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			'title' => 'IPR Frustration',
			'image' => '20220108030745_Clipboard31.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'From Nike sneakers to Louis Vuitton handbags, Nepali consumers can easily purchase any item in the domestic market at a price that is nowhere close to their real or actual price. These knockoff products that closely resemble the global brands have long been flooding the market.',
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			'title' => 'Insurance industry’s response to Covid-19',
			'image' => '20211211085234_Clipboard08.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'While the pandemic ravaged the tourism and leisure sectors such as hotels and travel businesses, industrial and financial sectors were also severely affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus and subsequent containment measures introduced by the government.',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'UNCOVERING HIDDEN MONEY',
			'image' => '20211113075816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The government is asking the private sector and investors to invest in certain priority sectors with a promise that it would not seek the source of income for two years. While the government wants to leverage the hidden cash for the country's development during the crisis',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'SILVER LINING IN THE TOURISM SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090234_6.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In 2019, about 1.2 million tourists came to Nepal, and the income of tourism and hospitality businesses increased to good levels. Private sector investment also increased significantly in the sector targeting the upcoming Visit Nepal 2020. ',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'THE WAY FORWARD FOR INSURANCE SECTOR',
			'image' => '20211006090503_7.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance companies are risk managers. The relationship between their business and risk goes in one direction. As the risk increases, so does the insurance business, and when there is no risk, there is no need for insurance.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'SIGNS OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH',
			'image' => '20211006090638_8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Nepali private sector has faced various challenges in every era. In the past, we went through a heap of problems including the worsening of labor relations, up to 18 hours of power cuts, and the 2015 earthquake and border blockade',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Under-construction Projects Should be Expedited for Quick Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090803_5.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Advancing infrastructure development by considering economic activities and sources available in the country can help improve the economy. However, the priority of political leaders and lawmakers in their constituencies has cast a shadow over our real need for development.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3120',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Improvement Needed in Most Areas for Economic Recovery',
			'image' => '20211006090948_4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Due to the adverse situation created by the pandemic and the working style of the government, the country's economic scenario is not looking encouraging. The ‘white paper’ issued by the coalition government and the latest macroeconomic report of the central bank have also painted a bleak picture.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3121',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
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			'title' => 'Generating 750 MW of Electricity can Add 1 Percent to Nepal’s GDP',
			'image' => '20211006091120_3.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, agriculture has always been considered as the main basis of economic development which is wrong. We need to look towards countries like China and Ethiopia and see how they leaped from agriculture to other sectors such as manufacturing and services',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
	(int) 57 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1027',
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			'title' => 'Banking Sector is the Mainstay of the Country's Economic Revival',
			'image' => '20211006091240_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Most of the sectors were affected by the lockdowns and prohibitory orders. However, the banking sector was not affected much.',
			'status' => true,
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '3123',
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			'title' => 'Maintaining fiscal stability and generating employment is important',
			'image' => '20211006091354_1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The financial sector and capital market have performed exceptionally well even when other sectors were reeling with the sharp economic slowdown. Amidst the pandemic, digitalisation of financial services gained a big momentum. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
		)
	),
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			'title' => 'RECOVERING Nepal Inc.',
			'image' => '20211006091621_Clipboard48.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal's economy is slowly recovering from the unprecedented crisis brought on by the global pandemic. The signs are promising, but much more effort is required to face the challenges along the way.',
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			'title' => 'MCC Nepal Compact – An insight',
			'image' => '20210905082515_2.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Compact is based on the principles of accountability, transparency, and mutual prosperity and will open up a new chapter in the infrastructure development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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	),
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			'title' => 'MCC Compact : Costly Delay to Nepal’s Economic Development',
			'image' => '20210905083137_Clipboard47.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Power politics, controversies and unnecessary indecisiveness over the MCC Compact is not only making the fate of the USD 500-million grant for Nepal uncertain but also risks hurting the country’s ambition to transform the economy by exporting its hydroelectricity in the lack of adequate transmission infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'NRB Needs to Open Licenses for New Development Banks',
			'image' => '20210807050907_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'When the new financial setup under the federal system was under preparation, a policy was formulated to encourage commercial banks to expand their presence in all the 753 local levels of the country. However, development banks were excluded as the Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO) ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ' LIBERALISING the Licensing Regime',
			'image' => '20210807051607_Clipboard49.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The time has come to cut the bureaucratic red tape and liberalise the licensing regime for a better business environment in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Riding THE BOOM',
			'image' => '20210630085625_Clipboard11.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Coronavirus raging across the country not only sickened hundreds of thousands of people and claimed over 8,558 lives across the country but also brought economic activity almost to a standstill for months.',
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			'title' => 'Energising EXPORTS',
			'image' => '20210531021546_Clipboard10.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Improvement in value chains generally leads to production of sophisticated products. These products cost more but there are customers who do not hesitate to pay premium because of the quality. ',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'THE BIG MELT',
			'image' => '20210501022954_cover story 4.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In the first week of April, Community Eye Hospital in Hetauda suddenly started seeing a surge in the number of patients. The hospital, which used to handle around 100 to 150 patients a day, was receiving around 300 visitors on a daily basis, with almost all of them complaining about irritation in their eyes.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'WANTED : ELECTRICITY BUYERS',
			'image' => '20210330083821_Cover Story 1.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chameliya Hydroelectric Project. The name conjures up images of a long-delayed hydropower project with huge cost overruns. The 30-megawatt project built by state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) started construction in January 2008 and was originally scheduled to come online by May 2011. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Construction Materials INDUSTRY NOW',
			'image' => '20210310102838_Clipboard19.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when many industries in Nepal are still reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with market demand yet to rise to pre-pandemic levels, the construction materials industry is going through a different situation.',
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			'title' => 'THE CHINA CONUNDRUM',
			'image' => '20210207093114_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Like many traders who import goods from or export goods to China via land, Bed Bahadur Shrestha has become accustomed to a slew of problems at the Nepal-China border crossings. These problems range from wage hike demands made by porters who load and unload goods to intermittent disruptions in movement of cargo trucks due to landslides on rough Himalayan terrain. ',
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			'title' => ' THE SME IMPERATIVE : What would it take to help SMEs get back on their feet',
			'image' => '20210119022843_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Over the past nine months, exports of handicrafts have dipped dramatically as the international demand for merchandise goods has been decimated due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal (FHAN) reports a 70-80 percent fall in exports and an over 80 percent decline in domestic ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Facing the CHALLENGES',
			'image' => '20201219071252_cc.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The coronavirus outbreak, which engulfed the globe after starting from the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, is having a multitude of impacts to women entrepreneurship in Nepal which was showing promising signs prior to the Covid-19 crisis.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => ' Nepal’s Agribusiness Transformation',
			'image' => '20201109032251_Clipboard02.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'For Nepal, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been severe and it is unlike past international crises when the events had little to no impact on the Himalayan country. But even in these gloomy times when the threat of the deadly pathogen looms large over the health of the citizens and the country’s economy, a silver ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'BANKING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19',
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			'short_content' => 'The four-month-long nationwide lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of cronavirus from late March to mid-July of this year and its subsequent impacts on the economic activities has put a dent on earnings of banks and financial institutions. Of the 27 commercial banks, only five banks have reported increase in profit in the last fiscal year ',
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			'title' => 'Time for Banks to Manage Their Books Smartly',
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			'short_content' => 'The Nepali banking sector, in the last 20 years, had to grapple with major disturbances including the Maoist insurgency, 2015 Earthquake, and Indian economic blockade. But the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic has been the most challenging. ',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views On Banking in the Time of Covid-19',
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			'short_content' => 'The Monetary Policy for FY2020/21 has attempted to address many aspects of the economic slowdown brought by the four-month long lockdown. The arrangements encouraged business community members who were in a state of disarray due to the pandemic-induced recession. ',
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			'title' => 'The Truth Behind Nepal-India Trade Relations',
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			'short_content' => 'Whenever Nepal-India bilateral relations come under strain, Nepal's economic dependence with the southern neighbour is often highlighted. Indian experts say the open border, transit access through Indian land and seaports, foreign direct investment from India, and India's dominating share in Nepal's foreign trade has benefited Nepal.',
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			'title' => 'HOTEL INDUSTRY : Survival for Existence and Beyond',
			'image' => '20200720033531_Newbusinessage_cover Design_Aug_2 - 2nd - Remove.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The series of worldwide unfortunate events over the last six months have dealt a massive blow to the Nepali hotel sector, which has an estimated investment of Rs 100 billion, with both international and domestic travel falling to zero, particularly after governments across the world rushed to impose lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus starting from mid-March.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Dr Khatiwada's Third Budget :  Will it Revive the Covid-19 Stricken Economy?',
			'image' => '20200630094753_Clipboard09.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Federal Budget for the fiscal year 2020/21 was perhaps one of the most anticipated ones, in recent years. The fact that Finance Minister Dr Yubaraj Khatiwada was presenting the budget against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic made the budget one to watch out for. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Covid-19 Impact on Economy : Counting the Cost and the Road to Recovery  ',
			'image' => '20200524063327_civerstory.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'In normal times, Nepal gets over 300,000 foreign visitors during the spring tourist season of March-May with the occupancy rate of hotels soaring to over 60 percent keeping the hospitality industry busy. This time, however, it is different with hotels practically empty and no one working.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'NEPALI STARTUP ECOSYSTEM : The Growth So Far & The Future',
			'image' => '20200512035159_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The last two months have been quite eventful for Nepali startups. First, Foodmandu, Nepal’s largest food delivery platform, has secured its second-round investment from Team Ventures, a private equity (PE) firm. Then, Health at Home, a healthcare services portal, also got funding from Business Oxygen (BO2),',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'A YEAR AFTER NEPAL INVESTMENT SUMMIT',
			'image' => '20200320085324_nis.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his address to the House of Representatives on February 14, to mark the current government’s second year, highlighted how successful his administration has been in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country.',
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on A year After Nepal Investment Summit',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The present government came to power with the slogan ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’. Happiness is a vague concept; however, material happiness at least requires overall improvement in the standards of living, economic, social and environmental security',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1006',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => ' New Face of Women Entrepreneurship',
			'image' => '20201010030357_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The Himalayan country is currently witnessing attempts made by women to break through the corporate and entrepreneurial glass ceiling to become master of their own destiny which was elusive for them a couple of decades ago. It is promising in a sense that Nepali women, who were largely confined to household works in the past, have taken charge of their own future. I',
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			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '1005',
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			'title' => 'Message from President Xi’s Nepal Visit',
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			'short_content' => 'When Jiang Zemin visited Nepal in 1996, China was barely able make it to the list of top ten economies and was trying to establish itself as the low-cost factory of the world. In 2019, when Xi Jinping came to the Himalayan nation for the first presidential visit by a Chinese President in 23 years,',
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			'title' => 'CHINA FIXATION : WILL POLITICAL BONHOMIE TRANSLATE INTO ECONOMIC GAIN FOR NEPAL?',
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			'short_content' => 'When Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Kathmandu in the second week of October, the first official visit by a Chinese President in 23 years, many eyes were on him wondering if he would announce the construction of the much-hyped Kerung-Kathmandu Trans-Himalayan Railway and how large a financial assistance package China would offer to Nepal.',
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			'title' => 'DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal Clearing House Limited (NCHL), in the month of Poush (December/January), reported that monthly transactions on its connectIPS, an electronic payment system, reached Rs 12.05 billion. The size of the transaction highlights two things. Digital payment is growing in acceptance among ordinary Nepalis and people are getting connected to the broader fintech (financial technology) disruptions taking place the world over. ',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Experts Views On DIGITISING Nepali Economy ',
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			'short_content' => 'Technology is enabling an ecosystem where customers are acquired and served differently than traditional ways. While designing a digital strategy, it is important to understand how customers are acquired and how they are served',
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			'title' => 'CEMENT INDUSTRY WOES : How to Stop it Going from Boom to Bust',
			'image' => '20210116080717_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'At a time when the country’s industrial productivity has mostly remained subdued, it is a matter of great pride to note that Nepal has become self-reliant in cement production. Over the last few years, this essential construction material has been witnessing a boom in business which, historically, only a few industries in Nepal had gone through.',
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			'title' => 'Big Merger : NRB’s Merger Cane and Nepali Banking',
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			'short_content' => 'In what looked like students being summoned into the headmaster’s office for a caning, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on June 27 invited chairmen and CEOs of banks and financial institutions to Hotel Yak and Yeti, a five-star property in downtown Kathmandu,',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Has the Business Climate Changed?',
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			'short_content' => 'Ever since KP Sharma Oli assumed the prime ministerial post in February 2018, for the second time, he and several ministers of his cabinet have repeatedly expressed in foreign as well as domestic forums that ‘Nepal is open for business with lucrative investment opportunities’, and that ‘foreign as well as domestic investors should invest in the country without any feeling of hesitation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Hotels in Nepal : THE NEW WAVE',
			'image' => '20190511105700_Clipboard37.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'After seven months, it will be Visit Nepal 2020. The goal of this second national tourism promotion campaign (The first was VNY 1998) is to welcome two million foreign visitors. The Visit Nepal 2020 campaign aims to achieve twice as many travellers than the goal set for Tourism Year 2011 and four times bigger than that of Visit Nepal Year 1998. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'When Technology Meets Hospitality',
			'image' => '20190511111432_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In this digital era, when contact with technology is inevitable, any form of business can create disruption in the industry with the wise and clever use of technology. The hospitality industry, till a few years ago, was human intensive with every big and small player striving to provide quality services and amenities through its vast resource pool.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Hotel Boom in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Hoteliers are very much prepared; today we have enough hotels to accommodate 2.5 million guests in term of rooms, beds, food and entertainment. Eventually, by combining all categories of hotels, i.e. stars hotels, resorts, lodges, guest houses and even the homestay facilities, we have the strength in numbers to make Visit Nepal 2020 a grand success.',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'ICTC GROUP’S NEW GEN : TAKING OVER THE REINS',
			'image' => '20190412013409_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Any transition from the old generation to the new comes with both opportunities and challenges. In a family-run business, this becomes more evident due to the complexities in managing various aspects such as maintaining the values of the family, incorporating ideas of the new generation, and most importantly the succession planning, factors that are considered essential to the success of the businesses and for charting their direction for the future.',
			'status' => true,
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			'title' => 'Mutual Funds in Nepal : Way Ahead',
			'image' => '20190317123055_Clipboard04.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The development or growth or expansion of the capital market in Nepal has been talked about a lot. However, these discussions have made little real impact.  Thus, the Nepali capital market is operating in an ecosystem where many components are entirely absent.  ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'The SSF Challenge',
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			'short_content' => 'On November 27, 2018, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli launched the ambitious, contribution-based Social Security Fund (SSF) claiming it as the ‘beginning of a new era’ amid lavish fanfare. “It is a historical achievement for us. The launch of the scheme will create a better work environment in the country,” said the Prime Minister unveiling the welfare scheme',
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			'title' => 'Too Big to Fail : Saving NAC from the Claws of Greed',
			'image' => '20190122020426_Clipboard12.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'In August 2016, when the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) decided to start process of purchasing two Airbus wide-body aircraft for long-haul flights, a bright light of hope for a revival of the struggling national flag carrier was seen at the horizon.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => null
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			'title' => 'How Export of Services can Balance Nepal’s Trade',
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			'short_content' => 'Global trade, today, is undergoing a transformation with the balance fast shifting towards trade in services from trade in goods. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the governing body for international trade, trade in services now accounts for two-thirds of the global trade in value added terms.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Banking Strategies and Disruptions : Nepali Banking Industry’s New Direction',
			'image' => '20181116022537_Clipboard21.jpg',
			'short_content' => '81  years after Nepal Bank Limited was established as the first commercial bank in the country, the Nepali banking sector has seemingly come to a crossroads. From issues related to liquidity management, financial inclusion, productive sector lending, CSR obligations and sustainable business practices',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Distorting the Private Sector',
			'image' => '20181007011305_Clipboard38.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The country’s private sector is increasingly turning to easier but more financially rewarding ventures like trading and partnering with the public sector on procurements and extraction of resources.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Problems in New Tax Arrangements and Taxation Reform',
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			'short_content' => 'The first federal government budget indicates that the government has taken a backward momentum in terms of taxation. There has been 5 percent customs buty increment on the impart of agricultural commodities. Such used to be levied also in the part but was abandoned long time back. Likewise, tariffs on the import of many commodities have been increased. To stop illegal imports of goods and commodities, the government should have reduced the tariffs. ',
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			'title' => 'Indirect Taxes in Nepal : Challenges and Trends',
			'image' => '20180910022816_Clipboard03.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'According to Harvard economist Daron Acemoglu, tax revenue as percentage of GDP is generally higher among countries with higher per capita income. Nepal is an anomaly in the global trend. For a country with modest economy, Nepal displays a strong state capacity for taxation.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Taxation Transition: Finding the Ideal Tax Template',
			'image' => '20180910030853_Clipboard13.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'During his recent trip to the United States to participate in the annual meeting of The World Bank, Minister for Finance Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada presented Nepal as the most competitive country in South Asia in terms of corporate income tax.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'BBIN : Will Sub-regionalism Work?',
			'image' => '20180806023952_Clipboard43.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Across the world, markets have enjoyed tremendous success by embracing free trade regimes within regional markets with connectivity as the nucleus of such practices of economic integration. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the European Union (EU) bloc is a vivid example. Within regionalism, countries have even experimented with sub-regionalism to realise the economic potential of underdeveloped pockets.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Connectivity : Trailblazer of Regional Integration',
			'image' => '20180806025500_Clipboard44.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Trade and economic integration at the bilateral and regional levels is gaining ground in the wake of the faltering global trading system. The looming dissension against the rules of international trade by the US administration not only debilitated the functioning of the World Trade Organization (WTO) but also reckoned to the re-emergence of old mercantilist theory,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Regional Integration',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) International, a Jaipur (India) based NGO working in the areas of trade, economy and environment, organised a regional policy dialogue on “Connectivity Imperatives in the Bay of Bengal Region” in New Delhi on May 2 and 3.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Breaking Away from the Zero-sum Paradigm​',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The foreign policy of every country is guided by national interests and priorities. In the context of the growing Nepal-China relationship, it is essential for Nepal to maintain a sound relationship with both India and China in order to ensure success of its foreign policy.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '987',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Dancing with the Dragon : The Road Ahead to Nepal-China Economic Relations',
			'image' => '20180706031803_Clipboard104.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A previously little-known locality of Jhapa spreading across areas of Kamal Rural Municipality and Gauradaha and Damak municipalities has caught national attention due to its high economic significance. Located about 9 kilometres from the Damak section of the East-West Highway,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '2163',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Economics of Sports : More than Fan Fever',
			'image' => '20180615095940_Clipboard54.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Behind this worldwide football euphoria and the curiosity about who will lift the trophy, are the economic benefits the host country, the governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), event sponsors, brands, broadcasters, advertisers, marketers and numerous other businesses, big and small, will reap from the quadrennial sporting event. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 110 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '986',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on The Economics of Sports',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Sports is also an indicator of a country’s societal and economic development. The performance of players in international competitions reflects the state of development. Nepal has not reached the stage where we can execute plans related to sports in well managed ways.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'A Win-Win Strategy for Liquidity Management',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal needs massive investment for its economic growth. We should be very careful while designing economic policies that must support the long-term economic growth objectives of the government. The current level of investment, though meeting the annual target set by the government,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Credit Crunch : Beyond a Wake Up Call For Banking Sector',
			'image' => '20180514032903_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Times are hard for Nepali banks and financial institutions (BFIs). They have been struggling with the ongoing shortage of loanable funds which started in December 2017.  From construction of hydropower projects, industrial expansion, real estate and housing transactions to sales of vehicles, many commercial, infrastructure development and manufacturing activities have been hit by the problem.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management  1',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The shortage of loanable funds has been caused by several factors. The outflow of Nepal is for overseas work opportunities has declined in recent time which can be attributed to the recent political developments that has been signaling political stability in the future.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '985',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Liquidity Management 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'In Nepal, there is a tendency of revolving around the same issues instead of searching for the options to come out of the troubles. We have been continuously hearing about issues like sluggishness in capital expenditure, swelling trade deficit and distributive budget since 2048 BS.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Nepal’s Top 30 Business Houses : Leading the Way',
			'image' => '20180403103039_Clipboard69.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'This article discusses the top 30 Nepali business houses, highlighting their history, growth, diversification, management practices, political connections, controversies, and future expansion plans. These business houses have played a significant role in Nepal's economy, venturing into various sectors such as banking, insurance, tourism, hospitality, health, education, IT, real estate, housing, and hydropower. The article emphasizes the benefits of diversified business operations for these groups, allowing them to withstand market shocks and navigate political and economic uncertainties. It also mentions the generational transition within these family businesses and their increasing engagement with politics. Despite controversies and allegations, these business houses continue to thrive and have optimistic plans for further investments and market development in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Securing Intellectual Property Rights',
			'image' => '20180312112200_cover.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property Right (IPR) plays a vital role for economies to thrive in today’s competitive world.  Countries have been adopting rigorous legal and technical measures to secure the intellectual properties (IPs) which they consider very important to attract investments and also to secure their national interests.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Trademark Administration in Nepal',
			'image' => '20180313095356_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'A  trademark often referred to as a ‘creation of the mind’ is an intellectual property. UK law defines a trademark as “a sign capable of being represented graphically which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one undertaking from those of another undertaking” ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '983',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Intellectual Property Rights ',
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			'short_content' => 'Intellectual Property (IP) is an essential tool for the economic development of any country. Four factors that drive the engine of IP smoothly are creation, promotion, protection and use of IP. In Nepal, there is no dearth of creative activities coming out from academic and research organisations as well as technical professionals who produce literary, artistic, musical and scientific creations.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'The Changing HR Dynamics in Nepal  ',
			'image' => '20180220104009_Clipboard50.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'There is a growing sense of realization among Nepali employers that focusing only on activities including production, sales and marketing, for example, are largely insufficient to meet the organisational objectives and to mitigate the existing and future challenges.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 1',
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			'short_content' => 'The traditional mindset still prevails in many organisations when it comes to human resource management. It sees people as liabilities whereas the modern philosophy of HRM takes people as the most important asset in the organization.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '982',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on HR Management in Nepal 2',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The frustration of people is generally directed towards the lack of career growth opportunities. People keep on working but are unaware about the next step for growth. This is so partly because many organisations have failed to design clear career paths for their employees and communicate with them. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Analyzing Manufacturing Prospects',
			'image' => '20180121115146_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Economies have thrived expanding their manufacturing base by reforming industrial policies, diversifying outputs, scaling-up production processes and systems, attracting global investments and upgrading connectivity and power-supplies. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '981',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Manufacturing Sector in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Cost of doing business in Nepal has gone up for everybody whether exporters, importers or domestic-based producers. For the export market, fulfilling business commitments in time and remaining competitive is difficult. It may diminish our preferential value. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1997',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '980',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Health  for All : Accelerating Universal Healthcare Coverage in Nepal',
			'image' => '20171223103203_Clipboard07.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Access to healthcare for the average Nepali has significantly improved in the last three decades. The increasing availability of better healthcare services in the country has led to a rise in almost all health related indicators.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Healthcare Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The main challenge in the health sector is that people have to bear all the expenses of the health care in Nepal. Opening such a big institution definitely brings more patients and causes more stress. The patients are more stressed when they have to pay more than their potential.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'Nepal Startup Ecosystem : Is it the Next Growth Engine for Nepal?',
			'image' => '20171113111636_Clipboard05.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'What does it take to become a successful entrepreneur? How can a small venture starting from scratch take centre-stage in the world of business? How can young people realise their ideas in business to bring innovative solutions and positive changes to society? ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
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			'title' => 'Buddha in Business Management',
			'image' => '20171008101524_Clipboard40.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been over 2,500 years since Gautam Buddha enlightened the world with his teachings encouraging people to follow the path of non-violence, truthfulness and righteousness. More than two and a half millennia later, the world continues to remember his teachings in the form of Buddhism,',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1936',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“We keep coexistence in mind”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'One requires honesty and credibility to run a successful business. We at CE try to strive for this as much as possible; we avoid taking any bad action against anyone. There is no unhealthy competition between us and our competitors nor do we have any negativity towards them.',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1937',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '978',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“Planning, organisational management and motivation are main components of Buddhist management”',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The universal definition of management is to manage tactfully. In Buddhism too, the meaning is not that different. It refers to management of life. Buddha’s main concern was to understand how to manage the life that we live, in order to be able to gain the maximum benefit from our lives. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1919',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '977',
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			'title' => '25 Years of Unilever Nepal : Charting New Heights in FMCG',
			'image' => '20170914013755_coverstory.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'It’s been a glorious 25 years of Unilever in Nepal. Unilever Nepal Limited (UNL) has seen several ups and downs in this journey, ultimately establishing itself as perhaps the largest FMCG manufacturer in the country. Profitability along with positive impact on society and the environment has been at the core of the business model of UNL. ',
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			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1920',
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			'title' => '“Our vision is to grow the business whilst decoupling environmental footprint from the company’s growth and to increase positive social impact”',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepali FMCG sector is a mixture of importers and unorganised players who mostly infringe the IPRs and also don’t comply with local rules in letter or spirit. To accelerate the FMCG sector’s growth, Nepal requires big investments in local manufacturing, marketing, capability of people and distribution infrastructure.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1884',
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			'title' => 'The Robust Business of FMCGs ',
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			'short_content' => 'FMCG sector has championed the Nepali manufacturing establishment. Now with the right set of policies and an environment conducive to business, Nepali FMCG brands aim  high to take on the international market.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'title' => 'Experts Views on Nepali FMCG Sector',
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			'short_content' => 'With the growing income of the lower and middle class people, the market is growing. Many FMCG products are somewhat essential in nature, particularly the products with market brands. All FNCG companies in the country are doing very well. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'id' => '1855',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
			'image' => '20170712094552_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Known to many as ‘a country of villages’ just a few decades ago, Nepal is witnessing a rapid shift in rural and urban demographics. The change in demographics is attributed to the internal migration that has speeded up over the last 3-4 decades. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '975',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Building Sustainable Cities for Future',
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			'short_content' => 'Planned urbanisation has become a priority development agenda for the government and political parties lately. This is because of the rapid urbanisation due to the sharp increase in the urban population.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Economics of Insurance',
			'image' => '20170614095308_Clipboard45.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Insurance is familiar to the general people of insurance of car, buildings and contents and life insurance.  Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1818',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '974',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Insurance Sector&nbsp;</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Towards Golden Days</strong></span></p>',
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			'short_content' => 'The interest of general public towards insurance over the last few years has grown as more Nepalis are looking to get insured.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT<br /> Some Policy Issues</strong></span></p>',
			'image' => '20170512120504_co.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Things have been progressing quite encouragingly following the March 2-3 mega-event that was the Nepal Investment Summit 2017 organised by the Ministry of Industry. Investors, mostly foreign, expressed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest a total of USD 13.52 billion, in various  sectors in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '973',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on Foreign Direct  Investment',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepal has entered into a new era of policy reform. We call it the second generation reform.  We have seen the changes over the past five to six months in this regard. The government has brought different policies and Acts to improve the investment climate in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>INVESTMENT IN NEPAL<br /> Materialising the Opportunities</strong></span></p>',
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			'short_content' => 'Of late, both the public and private sectors seem to have realised the importance of infrastructure growth and investment. While the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI), a major umbrella organisation of the Nepali private sector organised a mega event titled Nepal Infrastructure Summit (NIS) 2017 on February 19, ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1763',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Nepal Infrastructure Summit : Evidence Based Advocacy',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Infrastructure has various effects on an economy. Primarily, infrastructure stimulates economic development by encouraging production activities. It produces various crowding in effects, including in production activities and quality of life for households, which thus benefits the entire society. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1764',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '“It is important to engage domestic investors in bringing foreign investments”',
			'image' => '20170424095943_c00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The undertaking was aimed at informing potential foreign investors about the recent reforms at the policy level and conveying the message that Nepal is a suitable destination for doing business. On this, the participants signed letters of intent (LoIs) to invest in potential sectors. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '972',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Investment in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Lack of basic infrastructures has forced us to witness economic growth averaging 4 percent over the last one decade. The infrastructure gap has directly hurt development activities. As we are aspiring to reach the level of middle-income nations by 2030,',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'title' => 'THE IRON IS HOT!',
			'image' => '20170326103544_cs.JPG',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal which used to be mostly dependent on the import of iron and steel construction materials over a decade ago now seems to be on the way to become self-sufficient in such products. Steel bars, rods and galvanized corrugated sheets for roofing are the major items produced in the country.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '971',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Iron and Steel Industries in Nepal ',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'The industrialisation of Nepal gained momentum after the political changes in 1990. The liberal and open market policies helped the industries to grow. Nevertheless, the Maoist insurgency put a major roadblock in the pace of the country’s industrialisation.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '970',
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			'title' => '50 YEARS OF NEPALI TOURISM',
			'image' => '20170224030513_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The years since 2015 are considered to be historic for the Nepali tourism sector.  The years marked the golden jubilee celebrations of some important hotels and tourism related organisations that have been pivotal for the institutional development of the tourism sector in Nepal.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Tourism Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Airlines are essential to the tourism industry of any country. Maintaining quality of services in the airlines is important to ensure a healthy inflow of tourists. The quality of an airliner doesn't just depend on serving good food and providing a glass of champagne.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CEMENTING THE GROWTH',
			'image' => '20170122032905_cs00.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'The word ‘self-sufficiency’ has become a well worn cliché when it comes to industrial development in Nepal. Given the steep decline in industrial activities over the past one and half decades due to various obstructing elements, it has become very difficult for many manufacturing sector companies',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '969',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Experts Views on the Cement Industry in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Nepali cement manufacturers started their business at a very hard time during the Maoist insurgency around 15-16 years ago. They are still facing a lot of problems. Nevertheless, gradually with the increasing market the number ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
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			'title' => 'CSR: HOW DOING GOOD FOR SOCIETY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS',
			'image' => '20161219011734_cs0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Many companies in Nepal are engaged in various activities of social importance. From education and health, livelihood of marginalized communities, infrastructure development in rural areas, increasing inclusiveness, preservation of heritage or ecological conservation,  MNCs, BFIs, business houses 
',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 151 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '968',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'CSR Initiatives of Some Companies in Nepal',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'At present, many businesses in Nepal have integrated CSR and philanthropic activities into their day-to-day operations. The consciousness of social responsibility has led them to share their profit with the society',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '967',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'AUTO MARKET ON HIGH GEAR',
			'image' => '20161125124218_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Badly affected by last year’s twin shocks that came in the form of the April and May earthquakes and India's border blockade, the Nepali automobile market is in recent months recovering in a fast way. The entire car business which was down almost 50 percent for the whole of 2015, is now growing at a pace',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '966',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px">ARE WE CATCHING UP<br /> WITH THE WORLD</span><br /> <span style="font-size:18px">Nepali Business Houses in New Economy</span></p>',
			'image' => '20161016024336_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'One of the characteristics  of Nepali business houses is that they like to be omnipresent, in every sector, in all parts of the country and even may be abroad.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 154 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => '<p><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Investment for Change</strong></span><br /> <strong><span style="font-size:16px">Envisioning Nepal&#39;s Economic Prospetrity</span></strong></p>',
			'image' => '20160926042128_cs.jpg',
			'short_content' => '‘Change’ has become an overhyped buzzword in Nepal with the country going through various political and social changes over the past few decades. And these changes have so far failed to translate into economic prosperity and development as the prolonged political instability has been dragging the economy down. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'Glimpses of 3rd NewBiz Business Conclave & Awards Ceremony',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 156 => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Lifetime Achievement in Business Leadership Award to Chiranjilal Agrawal -  Honouring the Legend ',
			'image' => '20160927044032_cs8.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Chiranjilal Agrawal has played a big role in bringing Nepali industries in general and his family’s own MC (Madanlal-Chiranjilal) Group of Companies to today’s position. He worked continuously to diversify and modernise the Agrawal family business. His father late Dhiraj Agrawal started with a clothes shop in Dharan 97 years ago.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	(int) 157 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
			'id' => '1587',
			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Guest Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'It is no secret in today’s world that it is the business community and the entrepreneurs who move the countries ahead. The government must act not as a doer but as facilitator, a promoter and motivator. We need to convey this message not only within the country ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
	(int) 158 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Panelist Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => '20160928121826_ps0.jpg',
			'short_content' => 'Nepal still lacks a sound business environment as the country is passing through difficult times.  Despite this, we have been able to move forward with our hopes latched onto the economy and the people, since we do not have other alternatives.',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
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	),
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		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Winner Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => 'I express my sincere gratitude towards New Business Age for the award. This has encouraged me to become more active. Our group has been active across multiple business sectors for the last 97 years. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
	),
	(int) 160 => array(
		'MagazineArticle' => array(
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			'magazine_issue_id' => '965',
			'magazine_category_id' => '21',
			'title' => 'Jury Speak - Investment for Change',
			'image' => null,
			'short_content' => '  The programme was very effective and inspirational.  All the sessions and especially the panel discussion gave a positive message that there are immense business opportunities in Nepal. ',
			'status' => true,
			'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
		)
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			'short_content' => 'The Nepali stock market has been on a bull run setting new records in recent months. Led by the banks and financial institutions alongside insurance companies, the NEPSE Index has been reaching new heights nearing the 2,000-points mark. The gravity defying high speed increase in the ‘Kathmandu bourse’ overtly showcases the strong confidence of general investors. ',
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			'short_content' => 'With the country facing a severe economic recession due to last year’s devastating earthquake and Terai stir, Nepal is in need of all kinds of initiatives from the government including the policy support to end the current economic malaise.',
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			'short_content' => 'The Investment Board and the Ministry of Industry of Nepal have jointly brought out a new guide for investment in Nepal. This follows earlier guide that UNCTAD and ICC had jointly brought out in 2003. ',
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			'short_content' => 'Nepal abounds in huge new market segments. But, so far, not much has been done. It's high time we analyse these sectors and start appropriate measures to harness this vast untapped potential to make money.',
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			'short_content' => 'The high Himalayan range in Nepal’s north has always served as a natural barrier prompting the country to trade more across its flat border with India, but the latter’s current blockade against Nepal has forced it to explore the trade prospects with China and tackle the challenges that come in the way. ',
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			'short_content' => 'Will Nepal now learn to not just talk the talk but actually walk the walk when it comes to making the country’s economy more self-reliant as it suffers under the yoke of economic dependency? The general consensus seems to be that it must.',
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			'short_content' => 'Besides a time for fun and enjoyment, festivals have also increasingly become occasions for brisk business. No wonder the Nepali economy is often described as a festival-driven economy. ',
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			'short_content' => 'It’s not going to be easy for banks to comply with the new NRB directive for minimum paid-up capital. However, the banks seem to have no alternative other than to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and meet the challenge. ',
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			'short_content' => 'We took the step so that the capital base of banks widens and small shocks and risks do not affect them. We also want banks to be able to finance big projects on their own without having to seek co-financers; when the paid-up capital increases a bank’s single obligor limit (SOL) is also raised. ',
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			'short_content' => 'As Nepal gears up for the reconstruction phase post earthquake, experts anticipate a healthy growth for the country’s construction industry. ',
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			'short_content' => 'The devastating 7.6 local magnitude (ML) Gorkha earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 and the subsequent aftershocks have caused more than 30,000 casualties including over 8,600 deaths. In addition to this tragic loss of human lives, the economic toll of the quake is immense. Tourism, agriculture, hydropower, manufacturing, real estate, SMEs, physical infrastructures etc have been hit hard by the quake.',
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			'short_content' => 'The cement industry in Nepal is in the growing phase. Nepal is in the initial phase of infrastructural development. There are about 40-50 cement industries in existence in the country. The cement industry has immense scope.  ',
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		'short_content' => 'Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) are two energy monopolies of the state which, everyone agrees, have grown sick to the core and need serious overhauling. Both were created during the Panchayat system and have undergone little reforms since then. The NEA enjoys complete monopoly in the field of hydroelectricity.',
		'status' => true,
		'publish_date' => '0000-00-00'
	)
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