Why Nepal
A young economy.
Between two giants.
A rare window.
For seven decades, Nepal sat at the margin of two emerging giants. In 2026, after a generational rewrite of its foreign investment law and a stabilized currency peg, the country is finally legible to the individual investor.
The opportunity in one sentence
The opportunity in one sentence
Nepal is the last unleveraged frontier in South Asia — a 30 million-person economy growing at 7%, with 100% repatriation, USD-linked stability, and an untapped energy export position between the world's two largest power markets.
71%
GDP growth · 2024
The fastest sustained growth in South Asia outside India, driven by remittance-funded consumption, hydropower commissioning, and a tourism rebound past pre-pandemic peak.
100%
Profit repatriation
Capital, dividends and capital gains all repatriable in convertible currency — USD, GBP, EUR, AUD — through any NRB-licensed commercial bank. No quota. No claw-back.
2,1B
GDP growth · 2024
The fastest sustained growth in South Asia outside India, driven by remittance-funded consumption, hydropower commissioning, and a tourism rebound past pre-pandemic peak.
5k$
Individual minimum
FITTA's 2023 amendment dropped the foreign investor threshold from $500,000 to $5,000 — for the first time opening private-equity-grade access to the individual investor.
The regulatory arc
2015
GDP growth · 2024
The fastest sustained growth in South Asia outside India, driven by remittance-funded consumption, hydropower commissioning, and a tourism rebound past pre-pandemic peak.
2018
GDP growth · 2018
The fastest sustained growth in South Asia outside India, driven by remittance-funded consumption, hydropower commissioning, and a tourism rebound past pre-pandemic peak.
2022
Energy export policy
The first cabinet framework permitting cross-border sale of Nepalese hydropower — unlocking the country's largest dormant asset class.
2023
India power treaty
A 25-year USD-denominated off-take agreement with India for 10,000 MW of hydropower — the largest energy export commitment in South Asian history.
2025
You are hereChina power treaty
Trans-Himalayan transmission MoU signed; northern grid connectivity targeted for 2028. Nepal becomes the only economy in Asia exporting power both south and north.
The last decade was rebuild. This one is return.