2.1 Poverty Status in Nepal

The trajectory (the remarkable record (the honest hedging)): the monetary poverty's decline (the NLSS's story: the ~42-percent (1995-96) → the ~25 (2010) → the about-one-fifth latest (the 2022/23's 20-percent-neighbourhood (the decade's continued fall))); the multidimensional's faster fall (the MPI's halving (the 2014-2022's record: the ~30-to-teens reduction)); the drivers (the remittances (the migration's pro-poor paradox (the household's consumption-floor)); the connectivity (the roads-and-electrification); the social-transfers' growth; the education-and- health's expansion). The persisting faces (the challenges): the region's gaps (the Karnali-and- Sudurpashim's concentration (the province-MPI's divergence)); the caste-and-ethnic gaps (the Dalit's disproportionate poverty); the vulnerability (the near-poor's majority-risk (the shock-return's ease)); the inequality's rise (the Gini's climb (the growth's uneven capture)); the jobs' deficit (the youth's exodus (the domestic-employment's failure)).