TL;DR

A trimmed version of this analysis (without code) is published in medium.

1 Background

Republica published a story that Lawmakers in Nepal are planning to put several sectors in negative list for FDI. They might or mightn’t have done some analysis on what the FDI data says. In case they haven’t, i thought i might take a look at that.

Fortunately data is maintained in the website of Department of Industry, but unfortunately most of their data is in PDF as usual. I created CSV file from PDF and cleaned that up - the scrapping and cleanup process is for another day.

2 Data Loading

First we need to load the clean data and do basic cleanup and transformation. The clean data set already has segregated the Local and Foreign share in the company into separate columns.

Total industries: 6519

3 Data analysis

3.1 Companies Registration Trend

We have the year column ready for quick charts. So first we can quickly see in which year industries are registering.

3.1.1 Year and Monthwise Registration

Lets create a table with the count of registration based on year and month.

Registration Year (Nepali) Month (Nepali) Total
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2018 1 1
2022 1 1 2
2030 1 2 1 4
2032 1 1
2033 1 1 2
2034 1 1 2
2035 1 1 2
2037 1 1 2
2038 1 1
2039 2 1 1 1 5
2040 1 1
2041 1 1 2
2042 1 1 1 3
2043 1 1 1 2 5
2044 1 1 1 1 4
2045 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
2046 1 1 1 1 4
2047 9 12 7 7 20 16 8 11 6 96
2048 10 18 11 8 13 12 13 12 13 20 11 36 177
2049 105 75 118 133 124 47 216 17 23 14 3 3 878
2050 3 11 12 7 6 12 8 12 13 14 11 18 127
2051 13 12 21 21 20 15 11 16 16 16 12 20 193
2052 10 26 30 24 24 15 27 36 40 33 34 36 335
2053 35 38 31 20 22 32 10 21 20 19 23 19 290
2054 18 20 18 9 13 8 9 15 5 7 12 13 147
2055 7 5 9 9 10 4 4 3 5 13 9 17 95
2056 6 12 19 11 7 16 2 8 14 19 11 21 146
2057 19 18 13 13 9 17 11 16 9 15 11 11 162
2058 12 9 12 10 10 23 8 17 9 16 8 10 144
2059 8 9 11 13 13 7 9 6 11 6 7 4 104
2060 11 21 6 10 13 15 7 14 11 13 15 13 149
2061 8 11 12 23 9 8 7 7 4 8 5 6 108
2062 11 10 9 12 11 12 3 14 13 5 10 11 121
2063 7 9 13 10 17 12 9 16 13 11 13 10 140
2064 24 20 22 18 17 28 9 17 11 18 25 15 224
2065 13 26 30 20 34 24 29 23 21 13 25 18 276
2066 20 30 44 21 27 21 19 28 13 20 13 19 275
2067 16 35 24 27 23 22 9 17 17 14 18 19 241
2068 16 28 32 30 24 19 21 27 10 15 12 26 260
2069 22 36 37 46 34 51 25 32 24 30 29 27 393
2070 46 61 41 38 25 34 15 16 19 26 19 34 374
2071 48 54 43 31 43 48 35 32 36 36 24 41 471
2072 19 60 58 32 47 40 29 26 18 5 23 33 390
2073 36 61 59 156

3.1.2 Registration Trend

Lets quickly draw a chart showing the trend of industry registration.

We see that there’s spark spike of company registration in 2049 and declines in subsequent years. It would be interesting to see why there’s such a remarkable increase in the registration. I would be happy to see some researcher looking into the year 2049 BS and see what happened in Nepal.

The trend is in increase mode since 2064.

3.2 Registratration Trend with FDI

Our plan is to explore FDI. We have already segregated the FDI share for each industry. Lets see the trend of FDI share in the registered industries.

We see that FDI started flowing in from 2069 only and significant number of industries are FDI invested. It’s not clear from the data whether Nepal received FDI before that or not.

But we will limit our discussion to this data set only. It doesn’t give full picture of FDI, but we want to see whether the Lawmakers thoughts on banning FDI justifies or not.

So we will limit the analysis from 2069 onwards only.

3.3 FDI and Non-FDI industry exploration

The following chart considers the industry data from 2069 onwards. Here we are trying to see where each industry (of either small, medium or large scale) resides in the chart of employment against total capital.

At quick glance, we see that most of the FDI industries are of small scale. Though some of the small scaled industries (blue dots) are also on the region of large scale industries (red dots). This raises the question on data authenticity, on the definition of scale.

3.4 FDI Share breakdown

There are industries with as little as 2% FDI as well with 100% FDI. Lets see the breakdown based on FDI percentage share.

FDI % share Number of Registered Industries Percentage of Industries
10 or less than 10% 3 0.27%
11 to 49% 41 3.65%
50 to less than 100% 159 14.17%
100% 919 81.91%

82% of registered industries are 100% FDI. So we can further narrow our analysis to 100% FDI invested data only.

3.6 Sector-wise analysis

Again we are limiting the analysis to 100% FDI industries. Lets see the summary of sector wise breakdown of 100% FDI industries.

3.6.1 Sector-wise summary table

Sector No of Industry Employment Capital
Total Per industry Total Per industry
agro and forestry based 130 4,113.00 31.64 2,792,600,000.00 21,481,538.46
construction 1 25.00 25.00 100,000,000.00 100,000,000.00
energy based 4 213.00 53.25 336,966,193.00 84,241,548.25
manufacturing 122 5,842.00 47.89 3,509,162,358.00 28,763,625.89
mineral 10 1,096.00 109.60 270,000,000.00 27,000,000.00
service 347 12,755.00 36.76 16,883,380,240.00 48,655,274.47
tourism 305 9,468.00 31.04 8,044,602,000.00 26,375,744.26
Total 919 33,512.00 36.47 31,936,710,791.00 34,751,589.54

3.8 District-wise summary

Here’s district-wise summary for 100% FDI industries.

District No of Industries Total Employment Total Capital
KATHMANDU 478 16519 15,691,144,433.00
LALITPUR 238 9026 9,577,971,368.00
KASKI 83 2038 865,100,000.00
DANG 7 653 169,000,000.00
BHAKTAPUR 10 598 2,538,400,000.00
PARSA 6 564 189,234,000.00
KAVRE 11 459 474,209,000.00
CHITWAN 9 337 257,500,000.00
KAILALI 6 273 104,500,000.00
BARA 5 227 355,200,000.00
PYUTHAN 2 200 90,000,000.00
BARDIYA 2 188 135,000,000.00
KANCHANPUR 5 187 50,000,000.00
NUWAKOT 7 185 108,615,000.00
MORANG 4 173 251,236,990.00
BAITADI 3 161 46,000,000.00
MAKWANPUR 5 155 105,000,000.00
BANKE 2 150 15,000,000.00
SINDHUPALCH OWK 4 144 104,000,000.00
SOLUKHUMBU 3 137 235,000,000.00
SANKHUWASA BHA 1 130 0.00
RUPANDEHI 4 129 165,000,000.00
SURKHET 1 110 10,000,000.00
ILAM 1 103 100,000,000.00
DHADING 3 101 45,000,000.00
DOLKHA 3 95 25,000,000.00
NAWALPARASI 2 92 60,000,000.00
JHAPA 2 69 37,000,000.00
TANAHU 2 64 14,000,000.00
RAUTAHAT 1 50 10,000,000.00
GORKHA 2 47 25,000,000.00
DADELDHURA 2 47 15,000,000.00
JAJARKOT 1 40 30,000,000.00
HUMLA 1 21 10,000,000.00
MUGU 1 18 8,600,000.00
SUNSARI 1 13 5,000,000.00
KAPILBASTU 1 9 15,000,000.00

3.8.1 FDI registered in Valley and elsewhere

Here we want to see how much industries are concentrated in valley and the rest of Nepal.

Valley and Rest No of Industries Employment Capital
Total % Share Total % Share
Kathmandu Valley 726 26143 78.01% 27,807,515,801.00 87.07%
Rest 193 7369 21.99% 4,129,194,990.00 12.93%


As expected, valley represents bulk of FDI.

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A trimmed version of this analysis (without code) is published in medium.