Nepal, Feb. 26 -- Job creation in Nepal has long been a vexing challenge. Each year, nearly 500,000 young people enter the labour market, yet only around 20 percent secure employment. With limited opportunities at home, many are compelled to seek work abroad. Persistently high youth unemployment poses a serious threat to long-term national development. Reversing this trend will require creating meaningful employment and self-employment opportunities within villages themselves. Across rural Nepal, farmlands lie fallow. Villages are increasingly inhabited by the elderly and children, while the nation's most productive age group queues at airport departure gates. Amid ongoing discourse about building a "new" and "transformed" Nepal, it is ti...